[XALANC-407] XalanC output format is not suitable as a document entity

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: CurrentCVS
• Component/s: XalanC
• Environment: Operating System: Other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 28386
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: June Ng
• Created: 14/Apr/04 23:54
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 23:12
• Resolved: 02/Sep/04 18:03

Description

Sorry about the bad 'summary'. I'm not sure how to describe this one. I was
experimenting with Xalan-J a while back and noticed that output from the java
processor was serialized (no line feed characters) while the C++ processor was
not. It led me to the following response from the java team:

---- NOTE -----

the difference is significant when the document is used as an external general
parsed entity. If I refer to the transformed document using an entity
reference in the following document (apologies for bugs in syntax)

<!DOCTYPE doc [
<!ENTITY trans SYSTEM "transformed-output.xml">
]>
<doc>abc&trans;def</doc>

then the resulting XML with an extra line-feed is equivalent to the following:

<doc>abc
<out>1</out></doc>

but without the line-feed, it's equivalent to this:

<doc>abc<out>1</out></doc>

Emitting the extra line-feed could distort the meaning. It would be
permissible to emit the extra line-feed if either the doctype-system attribute
was specified on xsl:output or the standalone attribute was specified with the
value "yes", because in those cases, we must be producing a document entity.

---- END NOTE ----

In short, the no-line-feed output is for conformance reasons. The C++
processor should behave the same.