Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] maint: use common xml quoting style

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: [...] Actually I dislike for this kind of things. It's semantically equivalent, and I don't think we should try to enforce arbitrary requirements which are not needed. This is actually more confusing for people who do know the XML spec, "why isn't my example good" it actually is! The choice of quotes is on purpose to allow easy serialization when you have ' or " in an attribute value. Requiring the user to escape is kind of wrong IMHO. Also the automatic rule won't be able to distinguish " and " within attribute text content from those within element text content, and we certainly don't want to make a simili parser in perl or regexps. Also if someone uses an XML editor on one of our fragment it's very likely that the ' will be turned into " because the distinction is not part of the XML infoset (i.e. the amount of data an XML parser should report to the application) and the tool will serialize back using his own preferences, and that's just fine. I think the inconvenients in that case are not worth the possible improvement. Danil -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/