Although it's not explicitly documented (that I could see), the XML source indentation algorithm used by XXE appears to turn on text fill for (and disable line breaks before children in) all elements that can have #PCDATA, whether they contain it or not.
This generally works well, but it breaks down a bit for some of our XML formats, which use modular doctypes, where an extension element is defined to contain ANY, and an external parameter entity provides the DTD subset for the elements that are contained within the extension element. Using this mechanism, new DTD pieces can be composed to support new data structures without modifying the existing DTDs. The attached DTDs and XML files demonstrate how this works. The problem is that because the <extwrapper> element is defined as ANY, it can contain #PCDATA, although in practice it never does. As a result, the contents of <extwrapper>s are filled even though they never contain #PCDATA. As you can see in the example.xml, this can lead to very long lines, since there may not be any whitespace for breaking lines (after stripping superfluous whitespace). Ideally, text fill would only be turned on if there were actually text present in the ANY item (e.g. the third <extwrapper> in example.xml). But if that's too tricky, I would make a case that although ANY can contain #PCDATA, in practice it rarely does, and that therefore elements with ANY syntax should not be treated as though they might contain #PCDATA (for indentation/text fill purposes only). @alex -- mailto:dupuy at sysd.com -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: base.dtd Url: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20030220/8083d2fa/attachment.bat -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: extension.dtd Url: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20030220/8083d2fa/attachment-0001.bat -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: example.xml Type: text/xml Size: 578 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20030220/8083d2fa/attachment.xml
