Re: [xml] DAV: namespace and xmlReader

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 09:40:31PM +0100, Minor Gordon wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> Thank you for the extremely prompt response.
> I will download the CVS and test this.
>
> In the meantime, I have another, simpler request that also has to do 
> with WebDAV.
>
> In xmlwriter.c, xmlTextWriterStartDocument line 533 you automatically 
> put a \n after the ?> in <?xml version=xx ?>.  Unfortunately, 
> Microsoft's WebDAV client (for WebFolders) has its own finicky XML 
> parser, and it doesn't like any indentations in the WebDAV XML 
> response.  It will still parse the \n, but certain functions of the 
> client are disabled, most notably double clicking on files in WebDAV 
> folders (I have modified xmlwriter.c to confirm this).
>
> xmlTextWriterSetIndent(0) takes out pretty printing in the document 
> itself.  Can you also check this setting before printing the \n after 
> "?>" ?

  I dislike this. A number of software read the first line just to detect
possible encoding in the XMLDecl and then stream on the end of
the document. This change is likely to break load of stuff. But adding
a separate option xmlTextWriterSetXMLDeclLine() for this purpose would be
reasonnable. Please fill a request for enhancement in bugzilla and it's
likely to be added before the next release.

Daniel

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