[fpc-devel] xml line endings

[Vincent Snijders]

Colin Western wrote:
> Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw in the log message of revision 
>> http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?diff_format=l&rev=3784&sortby=date&view=rev 
>>
>> that the xml units now use native line ending.
>>
>> Previously I noticed they were using #10 for line-ending and was told 
>> this was conform the xml specifications.
>>
>> Does this change mean, that valid xml files can only be generated on 
>> *nix from now on?
> 
> 
> I submitted the change because I find it convenient to occasionally edit 
> the xml data files from my program as text, and (for example) notepad 
> does not like unix line endings. Looking at the spec:
> 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends>
> 
> it says:
> 
> "XML parsed entities are often stored in computer files which, for 
> editing convenience, are organized into lines. These lines are typically 
> separated by some combination of the characters CARRIAGE RETURN (#xD) 
> and LINE FEED (#xA)."
> 
> "To simplify the tasks of applications, the XML processor MUST behave as 
> if it normalized all line breaks in external parsed entities (including 
> the document entity) on input, before parsing, by translating both the 
> two-character sequence #xD #xA and any #xD that is not followed by #xA 
> to a single #xA character."
> 
> which I read as allowing any line ending, and it is the reader's 
> responsibility to normalize the line ending.

OK. Thanks, for looking that up.

So that means that external files may have all common line endings, but 
after parsing it should #A.

Then I have no problem with the patch.

Thanks for the clarification.

Vincent