Hi,
could you open a bug on this so it does not get lost.
cheers,
Gareth
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Verker, Anat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've encountered a problem when using new lines in attribute value.
> This is a fragment from the original xml file I used:
>
> <text text1="aaa
bbb
ccc"/>
>
> According to the Attribute-Value Normalization algorithm
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#AVNormalize) a character reference (i.e. 
) is
> replaced with the referenced character (i.e. 0xA).
> After parsing, I write the content to a file (using the sample code of
> SAXPrintHandlers). The value written to the file doesn't contain 
 but 0xA.
> Then I parse the xml again, but not the original xml file, but the file that I
> previously created. Now, according to the Attribute-Value Normalization algorithm,
> 0xA is replaced with a space character, which means that I'm losing my new line.
>
> This is the code fragment where I write the attribute values:
>
> // attributes is of type AttributeList
> // fFormatter is of type XMLFormatter
>
> for (unsigned int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {
> fFormatter
> << XMLFormatter::NoEscapes
> << chSpace << attributes.getName(i)
> << chEqual << chDoubleQuote
> << XMLFormatter::AttrEscapes
> << attributes.getValue(i)
> << XMLFormatter::NoEscapes
> << chDoubleQuote;
> }
>
> I tried replacing each 0xA with 
 before writing the attribute value to the
> formatter, but then I got the following output:
> <text text1="aaa&#xA;bbb&#xA;ccc"/>
> When I omitted XMLFormatter::AttrEscapes I got the following output:
> <text text1="aaa
bbb
ccc"/>
> This is actually what I want but I'm not sure that omitting
> XMLFormatter::AttrEscapes is the right solution (it can harm other things, can't
> it?).
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Anat Verker.
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