Revision: 1b4a4496b30d
Branch: default
Author: Pekka Klärck
Date: Tue Oct 23 14:47:50 2012
Log: Documented that NBSPs are considered normal spaces in parsing.
Update issue 1264
Labels: -Targe-2.7.5, Target-2.7.5
Now also documented. Closing
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/source/detail?r=1b4a4496b30d
Modified:
/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html
/doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.rst
=======================================
--- /doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html Mon Oct 15 08:09:49 2012
+++ /doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html Tue Oct 23 14:47:50 2012
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.9.1:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/"; />
+<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.9:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/"; />
<title>Robot Framework User Guide</title>
<style type="text/css">
@@ -2119,7 +2119,8 @@
<div class="section" id="handling-whitespace">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id387">Handling whitespace</a></h4>
<p>Robot Framework handles whitespace, such as spaces, newlines and tabs,
-the same way as they are handled in HTML. This means that Robot
Framework:</p>
+the same way as they are handled in HTML. This means that
+Robot Framework:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Removes leading and trailing whitespace in all cells.</li>
<li>Changes multiple consecutive spaces into single spaces.</li>
@@ -2146,6 +2147,15 @@
are equivalent. An exception to this rule is that the whitespace
character is not ignored inside the <a class="reference internal"
href="#extended-variable-syntax">extended variable syntax</a>.</p>
</div>
+<div class="note">
+<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
+<p class="last">Starting from Robot Framework 2.7.5, non-breaking spaces
are
+replaced with normal spaces regardless the test data format.
+This is done to avoid hard-to-debug errors when a non-breaking
+space is accidentally used instead of a normal space. If real
+non-breaking spaces are needed in test data, it is possible to
+create variables containing them, for example, in <a class="reference
internal" href="#variable-files">variable files</a>.</p>
+</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dividing-test-data-to-several-rows">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id388">Dividing test data to several
rows</a></h4>
@@ -16210,7 +16220,7 @@
<div class="footer">
<hr class="footer" />
<p>Generated by <a class="reference external"
href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html";>reStructuredText</a>.
Syntax highlighting by <a class="reference external"
href="http://pygments.org/";>Pygments</a>.</p>
-<p>Generated on: 2012-10-15 15:08 UTC.
+<p>Generated on: 2012-10-23 21:46 UTC.
</p>
</div>
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--- /doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.rst Tue Oct 23
14:37:32 2012
+++ /doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.rst Tue Oct 23
14:47:50 2012
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@
are equivalent. An exception to this rule is that the whitespace
character is not ignored inside the `extended variable syntax`_.
+.. note:: Starting from Robot Framework 2.7.5, non-breaking spaces are
+ replaced with normal spaces regardless the test data format.
+ This is done to avoid hard-to-debug errors when a non-breaking
+ space is accidentally used instead of a normal space. If real
+ non-breaking spaces are needed in test data, it is possible to
+ create variables containing them, for example, in `variable
files`_.
+
__ `Space and empty variables`_
Dividing test data to several rows
