Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] missing line ends in generated TXT (from datatracker)

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 12.11.2019 16:28, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 2019-11-11 22:23, Dave Rice wrote:
>> FWIW, for the cellar working group, we pipe our rfc xml through sed
>> to find all occurrence of <sourcecode> and replace them with
>> <artwork>. It’s a loss in semantics but seems to workaround this
>> issue for now. We’ll watch the progress of the ticket and remove our
>> workaround when it’s resolved.
>
> Another workaround is to generate the txt file yourself, and upload with
> the XML file.  I've started looking into why standalone invocation of
> xml2rfc handles <sourecode> correctly, while invocation as a library
> function looses newlines, but I don't have an answer yet.
> ...

A wild guess would be that the XML whitespace treatment might be
affected by the grammar (when the parser is in validating mode).

See:

>  artwork =
>      element artwork {
>        attribute xml:base { text }?,
>        attribute xml:lang { text }?,
>        attribute anchor { xsd:ID }?,
>        attribute pn { xsd:ID }?,
>        attribute xml:space { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute name { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute type { text }?,
>        attribute src { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "left" ]
>        attribute align { "left" | "center" | "right" }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute alt { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute width { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute height { text }?,
>        attribute originalSrc { text }?,
>        (text* | svg)
>      }

>    sourcecode =
>      element sourcecode {
>        attribute xml:base { text }?,
>        attribute xml:lang { text }?,
>        attribute anchor { xsd:ID }?,
>        attribute pn { xsd:ID }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute name { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "" ] attribute type { text }?,
>        [ a:defaultValue = "false" ]
>        attribute markers { "true" | "false" }?,
>        attribute src { text }?,
>        attribute originalSrc { text }?,
>        text
>      }

So those differ in the presence of xml:space, and the actual content
model (just text vs text or <svg>).

Best regards, Julian