[Mono-dev] MS/Mono XmlWriter incompatibility

[Atsushi Eno]

Atsushi Eno wrote:
> Luca wrote:
>> Il Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:47:23PM +0100, Vincent Daron ha scritto:
>>> <stream:stream version="1.0" to="me at test.com" from="server" 
>>> xmlns="jabber:client">
>>>
>>> aWriter.WriteStartDocument();
>>> aWriter.WriteStartElement("stream", 
>>> "stream","http://etherx.jabber.org/streams");
>>> aWriter.WriteAttributeString("version", "1.0");
>>> aWriter.WriteAttributeString("from", "me at test.com");
>>> aWriter.WriteAttributeString("to", "server");
>>> aWriter.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", theXmlNamespace);
>>
>> I think that you should add:
>>
>> aWrite.WriteEndElement();
>>
>> instead of the empty string.
> 
> I think the code is intended to not close the element.
> 
> However there is a couple of difference between the code and
> the code does not reproduce the "expected" result.

I mean, between the code and the actual output.

> I have 2.0.50727.42 in Windows XP but Vincent might have a different
> .NET 2.0 (there used to be a guy who wrote tests under Windows
> 2003 server and claimed that he uses the correct 1.1.4322 version,
> so .NET frameworks which have the identical version differ
> depending on the OS.
> 
> Those who really want to "flush" XmlTextWriter (and works fine in
> CLI 1.x) should use WriteCData("") which causes significant (but
> still empty) output i.e. <![CDATA[]]>. WriteString() is explicitly
> designed to ignore an empty string (both under .NET and Mono).

I also found a nasty workaround by using WriteRaw("") under .NET
which will be soon enabled in mono too.

Atsushi Eno