Re: [xml] Question about xmlSetProp

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From: Alexander Larsson (alla@lysator.liu.se)
Date: Sun Feb 14 1999 - 12:58:11 EST


On 14 Feb, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>> Soo, what kind of behaviour can i expect from xmlSetProp()?
>
> Basically you should provide escaped values for '<' and '&'
> Also you don't have the right to use both ' and " in the same attribute
> value.

 Ok.

> If this is really a problem, I can provide an alternate routine
> doing the escape for you (something like xmlSetRawProp).

 Well, i'll just do it myself. But if you created such a function i
 would use it.

> You must also know that pedantic XML processors can remove extra
> spaces between words in an attribute value. For example
> <elem prop1="a b c"/>
> can be saved as
> <elem prop1="a b c"/>
>
> Even if libxml don't do it ...

 Ok. So attribute values are whitespace ignorant... Is
 multiple whitespace ignored in the content too?
 (as in <string>a b c</string> vs <string>a b c</string>)

/ Alex

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