RE: RFC -- new 'svn status' symbol

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 15:13, John Barstow wrote:
> I don't think my XML parser would like you. In fact I think both '<' and
> '&' should be avoided specifically for this reason. On the other hand, I
> have no objection to square or squiggly brackets.
> I guess 'P' for Partially complete, 'Q' for Quite unusable or 'B' for Broken
> would be my next suggestions.

I don't think that's a valid reason not to use < or &. The output
of "svn st" makes absolutely no pretense at being XML, and thus
shouldn't be interpreted, or be subject to the constraints of such.

And if you've got something that *is* going to put that output into
XML format for some reason, well it jolly well should be escaping them!

daniel

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Received on Thu May 15 07:15:53 2003