RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Fragility of the XML project plan

Hi Christian,

I suppose that's the Turing Test at play :-) What I consider inconsequential means nothing to the parser.

I didn't consider that the schema would be this issue--I got the template for my plan from my PMC lead and didn't think to modify any of that stuff. When I said I had "more than passing familiarity" with XML, what I meant was "I know how to spell it". :-)

OK, I will go back into my cave and try to stay warm with this little camp stove, but maybe we could at least have some error messages?

-E

From: eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian W. Damus
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:49 PM
To: eclipse.org-planning-council
Subject: Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Fragility of the XML project plan

Hi, Eric,

I'm not sure that it is "mildly" invalid input.

Your plan.xml declares XHTML as the default namespace:

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

XHTML is as strict about tag matching as any other XML schema. That's one of its advantages over HTML. :-)

Probably the project-plan renderer uses a validating parser to load the plan.xml, so the process bombs before the PHP ever sees anything?

Cheers,

Christian

On 16-Jan-09, at 2:41 PM, CLONINGER ERIC-DCP874 wrote:

Hi David,

I am using the XML editor. I am a bit embarrassed to say I just checked and I am using Europa and not Ganymede. I haven't moved all my project management stuff over to Ganymede along with coding. <red_face/> Perhaps the newer version will help me catch my mistakes. Note to self....

My real concern is how the server handles mildly invalid input.

-E

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Christian W. Damus

Senior Software Developer, Zeligsoft Inc.

Component Lead, Eclipse MDT OCL and EMF-QTV

E-mail: cdamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx