Manuel Collado wrote: >> PS: No there is no way to make command "run" use for "%F" an encoding >> other than UTF-8. > > OK. I know now how to proceed. Re-reading the documentation after your > explanations make things much more clear. > > But, with due respect, I still think XXE could be improved for easier > interoperation with external tools. > > In the 'run' command, the behaviour of exporting data via %F is twofold. > Either plain text (for text selection) or XML fragment (XML external > entity) otherwise. Retrieving external data via %_ should have also > these two possibilities. Either retrieve as plain text, or as XML fragment. > > Always converting the captured output to the internal Java encoding lets > further parsing of it as XML really inconsistent. > > The 'read' element of the process commands provides some support for > this, by means of the 'encoding' parameter. > > But I think a better approach is not to explicitly stating the expected > encoding, but to select between plain text and XML for interpreting the > captured data. The 'run' could have an optional 'XML' parameter to force > the external tool output to be handled as an XML external entity, and > not just as plain text. Or at least to acknowledge the encoding stated > in the XML declaration, if any. >
You are right, as always. The current (layered) implementation of command "run" does not make it easy to improve the situation, so I cannot promise that we'll enhance command "run" in the short tem.
