On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:10 +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:30:45PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 10:21 -0400, Jason Viers wrote: > > > On 9/9/2011 05:37, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > Here is a simple test case that takes the text from an apparently-valid > > > > UTF-8 file > > > > > > Not all valid UTF-8 is valid in XML. Only a subset, as defined in > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#charsets > > > > > > Note that Form Feed (0xC) is not allowed. Your original input document > > > contains a formfeed character, and this is what ends up being invalid. > > > It's not a matter of escaping; form feed as a literal byte, numeric > > > reference, etc., is not allowed. > > > Stripping the form feed from the input allows it to serialize properly. > > > > Ah, I didn't know that it couldn't be there even if escaped. Thanks. > > > > Shouldn't libxml warn about that at the same time that it would escape > > characters such as & and < rather than writing invalid XML? > > It's a choice, either you make all APIs validate all input strings > or you rely on the client to do it. In libxml2 I took the second path > and that was decided 10+ years ago. The parser on the other hand is > strict but that's mandatory to follow the spec.
OK. Thanks. Is that documented? -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
