1 Mar
2016
1 Mar
'16
3:49 p.m.
On 22 Feb 2016 at 12:06:13, Thomas Mortagne
(thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
As recommended by W3C we are manipulating XML 1.0 in
XAR format but
what I did not know is that XML 1.0 does not support all possible
characters (I tough at worst it would simply be encoded as a UTF8
entity but seems not) and we just got a report of Woodstox failing
because of some character it cannot write in XML 1.0 (""Invalid white
space character (0x1) in text to output (in xml 1.1, could output as a
character entity)").
So I'm wondering if we should move to XML 1.1. It's critical IMO that
we are able to export anything that can be stored in XWikiDocument and
in the database and it's the case here.
In theory this is most probably a breakage for people using a XML 1.0
parser but not sure how breaking it is in practice.
WDYT ?
I’m not an expert in XML 1.1 vs 1.0 but it seems acceptable to me. Maybe increase the
format version of the XAR spec to 1.3 (I think we’re at version 1.2 right now).
BTW I’d also list the various version formats
on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XAR+Module+Specificati… and
explain the differences, i.e. what changes each version brings.
Thanks
-Vincent
I'm +1 for this but I won't apply it until I
get more point of view
(ideally from people having more experience that me on XML 1.0 vs
1.1).
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Thomas Mortagne