Re: Bug (?) in XML::LibXML when creating XML docs with invalid characters

You should probably use

  $element->appendTextNode($c);




On Apr 9, 2013, at 4:11 AM, aitor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the following perl snippet creates an invalid XML using LibXML
> functions, which I though was not possible. The idea is to attach a
> malformed character via "appendText". I would say that the function
> should fail when feeding invalid characters ?
> 
> test.pl
> *******
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use XML::LibXML;
> 
> my $c = pack("W", 07); # the invalid character
> 
> my $odoc = XML::LibXML::Document->new('1.0',"UTF-8");
> my $elem = $odoc->createElement("elem");
> $odoc->setDocumentElement($elem);
> $elem->appendText($c);
> print $odoc->toString(1)."\n";
> 
> ******
> % perl test.pl > test.xml
> % xmllint --noout test.xml
> test.xml:2: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 7
> <elem>lem>
>      ^
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> best,
>                                                aitor
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