[Mono-bugs] [Bug 74279][Wis] Changed - XML parsing Bug in MiniParser

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Changed by sebastien@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74279

--- shadow/74279	2005-04-03 19:00:34.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/74279.tmp.24214	2005-04-04 09:18:30.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 Bug#: 74279
 Product: Mono: Class Libraries
 Version: 1.1
 OS: unknown
 OS Details: 
-Status: NEW   
+Status: NEEDINFO   
 Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Wishlist
 Component: Mono.Security
 AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: gnauck@ag-software.de               
 QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
 TargetMilestone: ---
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 Summary: XML parsing Bug in MiniParser
 
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@@ -101,6 +100,40 @@
 
 ------- Additional Comments From atsushi@ximian.com  2005-04-03 19:00 -------
 ah, ok I got it. Well, it is an intended design. There used to be
 similar report. My best descriptive answer is here:
 http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2004-July/022284.html
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From sebastien@ximian.com  2005-04-04 09:18 -------
+Try to see if the problem is in MiniParser or SecurityParser. The
+design of MiniParser was to allow people to easily write their own
+specific parser on top of it (as simple or complex they wishes). My
+hack, the SecurityParser, made it a more "general" parser but
+(probably) loose a lot of original flexibility in doing so.
+
+Anyway the whole idea of writing SecurityParser was to produce
+SecurityElement from a string - which was something not possible with
+the framework prior to 2.0. The security permissions and the key
+persistance are the only features requiring the SecurityParser and
+both have _very_ simple XML data to deal with.
+
+So either the problem is:
+* in MiniParser; or
+* in SecurityParser;
+and 
+* affects; or
+* doesn't affects; 
+the SecurityElement.FromString (available in 2.0). 
+
+The later being the most serious (but not immediate) issue.
+
+If it doesn't affect 2.0 then I don't think we want to put much effort
+into fixing this, but I would gladly accept patch in Mono.Security.dll
+to make it better. In this case it may not be worth to fix
+SecurityParser (if the problem is located there) but to write a new,
+more complete (general or specific), parser on top of MiniParser.
+
+Finally keep in mind the "mini" of the parser. Huge patches or changes
+for stuff rarely required XML functionalities are likely to be ignored
+as we already have a much better alternative for them.
+