Re: [xslt] HTML vs. XHTML: different output when including a file with \r\n [WAS: xmllint vs. xsltproc: different output when including a file with \r\n]

["Boris Schaeling" <boris highscore de>]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:08:02 +0100, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>  
wrote:

> [...]\r  is turned into \a or simply discarded by any XML parser.
> As a result if you put \r  in an XML tree text node libxml2
> *must* escape it to avoid this treatment.
> This is not needed for HTML because no such rule exists for HTML parser.
> If you serialize XML this is expected to be consumed by an XML parser.
> If you serialize HTML this is expected to be consumed by an HTML parser.
>
> If you ask for something to be in an XML tree then libxml2 will do
> whatever is needed to have this if you reparse the serialized tree.
> If a parser choke on &#13; in an XML document, it's not a compliant XML
> parser the problem is on the receiving end.
>
>   Not a bug.

Thanks for the clear answer!

Boris