Hi all,
It would be nice, if the "echo" task worked a bit different - actually
*ignored* leading and trailing whitespace in the body of the text.
The reason is, that XML-pretty-formatters - which does not change the
semantics of the XML formatted relative to the specification - may alter the
action performed by the "echo" task.
Example:
<echo>This is text!</echo>
- and -
<echo>
This is text!
</echo>
- produce two different results.
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A longer story is, that I am creating a tool for building Ant-files. The
final files are written out from DOM-structures. This means that they may
look... *special* in their formatting.
Built files are formatted - I have made a generic XML-formatter, which can
format XML in different ways. It uses SAX to read its input. The formatting
may be applied for other reasons - messy build-files.
To the best of my knowledge, the XML specification indicates, that the two
variants in the example should have the exact same interpretation!! With
Ant, this is not the case.
I think, that the right way to include leading and trailing
whitespaces/carriage-returns, the CDATA-element should be used.
What do you think? Am I right or wrong here?
Even though Ant does not really have a DTD/XSD, build-files are supposed to
be valid XML?
Med venlig hilsen
Morten Sabroe Mortensen
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