Julian Foad wrote:
> Leslie Kishalmi wrote:
>
>> +1 vote on first class element for filename. Something like this:
>> <entry
>> committed-date="2003-09-29T22:23:23.939789Z"
>> last-author="julianfoad"
>> kind="file"
>> size="7"
>> revision="35">eol-test</entry>
>
>
> Can you say why you would prefer it this way? I know the choice between
> attribute and element can be rather subjective, but if you have any
> concrete reasons, that would be very helpful.
Nothing special than the mater of taste. I think CDATA is preferred when
the whitespace characters are important to be kept by the parser. So it
might be useful for the blame, but not for list. if we might show some
consistency with the log command, we could use "path" instead of "entry"
as element name.
Laszlo Kishalmi
>
> FWIW, it looks OK to me and I have no particular objection to it. It is
> how we report paths in "svn log --xml -v":
>
> <path
> action="M">/sandbox/b</path>
>
> ... and it would be sensible to follow that precedent in the absence of
> any stronger requirement.
>
>
>> And use CDATA as needed.
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean: would CDATA be needed in some cases but not
> other cases?
>
> I believe we have the follwing three options:
>
> <entry ... name="Hello"/> (where attribute "name" is declared as type
> "CDATA")
> <entry ...>Hello</entry>
> <entry ...><![CDATA[Hello]]></entry>
>
> As far I can tell from the XML spec, the set of allowable characters is
> the same in each case (being the set of valid XML characters), but the
> escaping is different in each case. Bizarrely, the third form seems
> actually the most restrictive because I cannot see any way of
> representing the literal sequence "]]>" within it; am I missing something?
>
> - Julian
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