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

* Francisco Obispo wrote:
>Pressed "send" without much testing:
>
>$ ./test.pl |xmllint -format - =

>-:2: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 7
><elem></elem>
>      ^
>
>So, "7" UTF-8 is a control character, I don't think you can use control =

>chars in XML at all, however, I guess you can do something like &#x0007; =

>but I'm not sure about the implications on the parsers.

You cannot use U+0007 in XML 1.0 documents, and the point of this thread
is that aitor expected XML::LibXML to enforce that, so adding such text
should fail, but doesn't. The W3C DOM specifications require throwing an
exception here, FWIW.
-- =

Bj=F6rn H=F6hrmann =B7 mailto:[email protected] =B7 http://bjoern.hoehrma=
nn.de
Am Badedeich 7 =B7 Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 =B7 http://www.bjoernsworld.de
25899 Dageb=FCll =B7 PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 =B7 http://www.websitedev.d=
e/ =

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