On 08/19/2011 01:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
When writing an attribute in xml, which style is preferred?
<element attr='single'/>
<element attr="double"/>
We are currently rather split-brain in libvirt, among three general
areas: test programs under tests/*data/*, documentation under
docs/*.html.in, and RNG schemas under docs/schemas/*. In all cases, both
styles are present, but in different proportions:
$ git grep '="' tests/*data |wc
48 163 4276
$ git grep "='" tests/*data |wc
5994 21336 526402
$ git grep '="' docs/schemas/ |wc
1522 4599 103050
$ git grep "='" docs/schemas/ |wc
566 1699 33005
$ git grep '="' docs/*.in |wc
1288 6436 114146
$ git grep "='" docs/*.in |wc
611 2242 42950
Is it worth a cleanup patch that settles on one particular style, or
even a syntax check that forces style compliance?
One other point - our XML formatting code in src/conf/*_conf.c tends to
favor attr='single', if only because it's less typing to write C-style
strings to output "''" than it is to do "\"\"".
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