Re: [Firebird-devel] XML Load/Dump Utility

[Olivier M. <om...@ti...>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:52:19 -0400
"Leyne, Sean" <Se...@br...> wrote:

LS> The problem I ran into wasn't with the size but rather that an attribute
LS> value CANNOT contain CRLF characters.

Specific implementation limitation.
CRLF or LF is defined as whitespace, just as space and tab.
Whitespace CAN happen in an attribute value.
When reading an attribute value, an xml processor is supposed to map
each whitespace character to a single space.
But I can understand that some implementations might be buggy with
that.
Anyway, this means that the whitespace of an attribute value is not
stable. So not suitable for storing column values. Except if we declare
'our' xml not to be xml (which is possible of course, but then why use
xml in the first place ?).

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#AVNormalize

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Olivier Mascia