[Mono-dev] corcompare patch to generate well-formed XML

[Atsushi Eno]

Hello,

After hearing from Gonzalo that buggy XmlTextWriter (by design)
outputs invalid XML which caused corcompare breakage, I created
a corcompare patch and an XmlWriter wrapper that avoids invalid
XML output (such as <field name="vbBack" attrib="32854"
fieldtype="System.String" value="&#x8;" />).

XmlTextReader is similarly buggy (by design) to accept such invalid
character references by default (unless you set Normalization=true),
so as long as those api-info are fed only to corcompare itself,
there won't be problem.

(If you try xmllint against existing masterinfos, you will
understand what is the problem I am talking about.)

Note that this WellFormedXmlWriter.cs is not for general use (yet)
since it handles only WriteString().

If no objection I'll commit them cpl days later.

Atsushi Eno
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