Hi there, we are using XXE to edit DocBook XML and commit the files to cvs. For this, we added XML comments of the form
<!-- $Id$ --> <!-- $Source$ --> to the templates we use. Currently, we have these comments just outside the document element, e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> <!--$Id$--> <!--$Source$--> <chapter> ... </chapter> When saving these files from XXE, we get <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";><!--$Id$--><!--$Source$--> <chapter> ... </chapter> i.e. the comments are put on one line with the DOCTYPE declaration. This is a problem for cvs, since it then can't resolve changes in the $Id$ and $Source$ keys. When putting the comments inside the document element: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> <chapter> <!--$Id$--> <!--$Source$--> ... </chapter> they are saved "as-is", i.e. with the linebreaks. I understand that the linebreaks and the whitespace are not relevant, but it seems that the handling shouldn't be different inside and outside the document element (unless there's a specific reason to do it like it's currently done). Until then, as a workaround we move the comments inside the document element. Thanks Bernd
