Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #2855: Rapid XML 1.12 whitespace parsing bug

attachment set

Chris — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:05:51 GMT

attachment → rapidxml.hpp.diff1

This small patch fixes the problem.

milestone changed

Chris — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:44:18 GMT

milestone Boost 1.39.0 → Boost 1.40.0

owner, status changed

Sebastian Redl — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:01:18 GMT

owner changed from kaalus to Sebastian Redl
status new → assigned

milestone changed

anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:48:36 GMT

milestone Boost 1.40.0 → Boost 1.42.0

Fixed on trunk.

anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:54:21 GMT

This patch really introduced a bug: now, every time a tag is closed, the parser finds after it a non really existent tag with empty name. Unless you activate the option "parse_trim_whitespace", which is intended for other purpose. Since boost uses this library in fact enabling such option, this problem has not been noticed, but anybody directly using rapidxml in boost (property tree may have a huge memory penalty) will find it.

I'd suggest to revert this change, and in case the trim support requires improvement, do it the right way.

Sebastian Redl — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:14:48 GMT

I don't understand. Can you show an example xml snippet and the expected and actual behavior?

status changed; resolution set

Sebastian Redl — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:57:03 GMT

status assigned → closed
resolution → invalid

Given that I have no idea what the problem now is, I'm closing this.