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Re: svn server returns invalid XML during checkout

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_e-reka.si>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:07:40 +0200

On 19.06.2011 18:13, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when running svn with ra_serf on some test repositories I found a
> consistent failure checking out a part of the gnome svn repository.
>
> This command:
> $ svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gimp/trunk/tools/pdbgen/pdb /tmp/tr1
>
> aborts after a while with error:
> subversion/svn/checkout-cmd.c:168: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_client/checkout.c:230: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_client/update.c:555: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_client/update.c:413: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/update.c:2368: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/update.c:2368: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1499: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1499: (apr_err=175009)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1256: (apr_err=175009)
> svn: E175009: XML parsing failed: (207 Multi-Status)
>
> The XML parsing fails on the response [1] of a PROPFIND request, on
> tag "<C:text/x-perl/>". Strangely enough this is what's returned from
> the server, it's not what serf makes of it.
>
> When running svn with ra_neon, these response are all returned as one
> update-report, with different syntax, which the xml parser handles
> without problem:
> <S:set-prop name=\"text/x-perl\">
>
> Digging a bit deeper, it turns out that file text_layer.pdb has a
> property with name "text/x-perl", where that should be the value of
> property svn:mime-type. This probably shouldn't work in ra_neon
> either, but both should give a nice error message.

In fact, Subversion does not really impose such limits on property
names, certainly not in the sense that they should be valid in XML tag
names. So there's something else wrong with both RA layers if using such
a property name causes an error.

-- Brane
Received on 2011-06-19 22:08:18 CEST

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