[fpc-devel] Re: xmlwrite rejects valid CDATA xml (regression in 2.6.2)

[Seth Grover]

I'm sorry, my google-foo is not up to snuff today.  I just found bug 23794,
it looks like this has been resolved already. Ignore my earlier email.

-SG

--
Seth Grover

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Seth Grover <sethdgrover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given this XML file:
>
> =============================
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <item>
>     <description>
>         <![CDATA[This is a description for a test [...] and will fail]]>
>     </description>
> </item>
> =============================
>
> WriteXMLFile in xmlwrite.pp throws an "Illegal character" exception on the
> "]" character in CDSectSpecialCharCallback. However, this behavior is
> incorrect. Only "]]>" marks the end of a CDATA section, any other
> characters, including square brackets, should be allowed.
>
> This seems to be a regression in 2.6.2, as it works in 2.6.0.
>
> I did find http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20780 and
> http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?revision=19792&view=revisionwhich seem to be what introduced this bug.
>
> I'll log a bug for it in Mantis, but I thought I'd also bring it up in
> this to see if there should be any discussion about it.
>
> Thanks guys, have a good one.
>
> -SG
>
> --
> Seth Grover
>
> ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
>
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