[Mono-dev] MS/Mono XmlWriter incompatibility
Atsushi Eno
atsushi at ximian.com
Mon Feb 13 22:43:42 EST 2006
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
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