Hussein, thanks for your answers, my remarks between lines:
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/02/2013 04:21 PM, Fabián Mandelbaum wrote: > >> >> we've implemented a copy-as-reference from our web application by >> generating the same text generated by XXE on the clipboard for the same >> operation (Open a file, select the root node, Copy as reference, open an >> ASCII text editor, paste). >> > > > >> Please find below an excerpt of the clipboard contents for one of our >> tests. Why is it not working anymore on XXE 5.6.0? >> >> Is the clipboard format documented somewhere? >> >> Thanks in advance for your answer. >> > > > This is not a problem of the format. The clipboard format has not changed > in XXE 5.6.0. > > An external application copying some XML to the clipboard for use by XXE > must now declare the copied data as being "application/xml" (or "text/xml"). > > In a nutshell, XXE 5.6.0 makes a difference between "text/plain" and > "application/xml", while XXE 5.4.0 ignored "application/xml" and > ``sniffed'' the "text/plain" in order the detect the case where this text > was actually XML (starts with "<?xml "). > > References: > > * http://www.xmlmind.com/**xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/** > com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/**XMLClipboard.html<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/XMLClipboard.html> > > * http://www.xmlmind.com/**xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/** > com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/**XMLTransferable.html<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/XMLTransferable.html> > > So, we're kind of stuck... because it's not easy (or even possible?) from Javascript to copy stuff to the clipboard, much less being able to specify the media type (text/xml, for example) of the copied object... I'm sure there's a very valid and well thought rationale behind this change, but this is a feature breaker for us... We're currently investigating the possibility to implement a small java applet that will perform this copy-to-clipboard function to replace the JavaScript implemented feature on our UI, but having an applet (on an otherwise html+css+javascript-ONLY UI) just for this is not a very elegant solution. Will keep investigating about JavaScript and the clipboard (which seems rather dead because, mainly, security constraints). -- Fabián Mandelbaum IS Engineer
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