Re: [xml] Strange 0x0a char popping in generated XML

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:30:01PM +0000, Jean-Philippe Jacoupy wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> I'm using libxml2 and I have a strange behaviour. 
>
> I'm creating a full document in memory (using xmlTextWriter with a xmlBuffer). 
>
> I have called xmlTextWriterSetIndent with 0 as parameter. 
>
> Whenever I get the buffer content (once I have called
> xmlTextWriterEndDocument) I get strange 0x0a inserted: 
>  - 1 after the xml header
>  - 1 after the end of the xml document

  It's not strange, that a new line character, which is present
as non-significant white space and will be ignored by XML parsers
and hence the whole tool chain consuming the output.

Daniel

> I'm under Windows compiling with VS2008 against LibXML2 version 2.7.2
>
> PS: 
> - As I searched the code of the libxml2, at the end of the
> xmlTextWriterStartDocument function I have found this: 
>
> count = xmlOutputBufferWriteString(writer->out, "?>\n"); (L. 617)
>
> Shouldn't the '\n' be prefixed by a if (writer->indent) ? 
>
>  - Found the other one in xmlTextWriterEndDocument I have found: 
>
> if (!writer->indent) { (L. 701)
>
> instead of 
>
> if (writer->indent) {
>
> as done in all the file. 
>
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