Re: [xml] newline in xmlTextWriter on win32

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 11/08/04 00:47, Michael Culbertson wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm having difficulty with newlines ("\n") using xmlTextWriter on
> Windows.  Instead of writing CRLF to the given output file as is the
> windows convention, the text writer is outputting LF (\x0A) alone.  This
> happens both when the newline is inserted due to automatic indentation and
> when the newline is explicit in an inserted string constant (using
> xmlTextWriterWriteFormatString).  I verified that newlines outputed using
> fprintf and fwrite to regular files do indeed translate \n into CRLF.  I
> poked around very briefly in the libxml2 code, but nothing jumped out at
> me as a possible cause.  Does anyohe have an idea as to what could be
> causing this problem?
>
> Some details about my setup:
>   - Cross-compiling for win32 on Debian GNU/Linux using mingw32-based gcc
>         version 3.4.0
>   - Using libxml2 version 2.6.10, self-compiled
>   - On the windows side, running Win98
>   - Text writer created using xmlNewTextWriterFilename()
>   - I have tried default encoding (UTF-8?), ISO-8859-1, and plain ASCII

This conversion done by the C runtime has been deactivated in libxml on 
purpose. The problem was that under some bizarre conditions, 
xmlParseFile() followed by a xmlSaveFile() modified the data. It 
replaced every \n with \r\n, even if it allready was a \r\n, ending up 
with \r\r\n. One did the read-write again and it became \r\r\r\n.

This behaviour was not desirable, so libxml views XML files as binary 
not doing any translations. This makes the libxml output bytewise equal 
to that on Unix.

I guess, if you want a \r\n, you will have to specify \r\n.

Ciao,
Igor