Re: [xml] HTML parser and NULL bytes

[Michael Day <mikeday yeslogic com>]

Hi Ashwin,

>   I am not sure if I understand the scenario correctly, but in case you 
> are trying to give a NULL byte as text content in xml, then i don't 
> think any XML compliant parser will parse it, according to the XML draft 
> this is invalid.

That is correct, and libxml2 correctly handles this case by printing an 
error message and terminating the parse.

However, libxml2 also has a HTML parser, and the HTML5 spec says that 
NULL bytes do not terminate the document (they are invalid, but you 
should just replace them with U+FFFD and keep going). Also, the libxml2 
HTML parser does not even print an error in this case, it just stops.

Michael

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