Re: [xml] Line ending style on Windows

["Buchcik, Kasimier" <k buchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-bounces gnome org [mailto:xml-bounces gnome org] On 
> Behalf Of Daniel Veillard
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:32 PM
> To: Rob Laveaux
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Line ending style on Windows
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:22:12PM +0200, Rob Laveaux wrote:
> > I'm using the Windows binaries of libxml as provided by Igor  
> > Zlatkovic (version 2.6.26).
> >
> > When I call xmlSaveFormatFileEnc it saves the XML file 
> using line feeds.
> > Is it possible to configure the line ending style to 
> carriage return  
> > + line feed?
>
>   No, 1/ XML parser must convert on input
>          http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends
>       2/ when serializing an XML toolkit won't add extra characters to
>          the document
>
> Clearly XML tools should have no problem processing the output and
> libxml2 behaviour is the correct one.
>
> Daniel

Having the possibility to set the line-ending would
heal issues with some editors on the win side which
do messy stuff with non-Windows line-endings. I don't know
if there are issues on the Mac OS side.

Maybe one should consider the addition of such a feature, although,
in my opinion, not to the extent of DOM's Load and Save module,
where the line-ending can be set to an arbitrary value - I wonder
what was the background to allow this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407/load-save.html#LS-
LSSerializer-newLine

Regards,

Kasimier