Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #8095: Invalid XML is produced by write_xml when there is a special character in the key

Sebastian Redl — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:55:49 GMT

There is no solution that will turn your data into valid XML. Element names must follow the Name production, which cannot contain entity references.

The best I can do is fail validation when writing the XML, so that you don't end up with invalid documents.

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smr@… — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:37:21 GMT

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I've hit another edge case today when converting bunch of .info to .xml. In my case the issue was empty key (since this is valid in info format):

"" value

but produces

<>value</>

in xml.

I think failing the generation with an exception would be best (and only) solution. Sure, I can (and do now) re-read the xml after pt::write_xml() and validate it but feels like unnecessary, since I can't imagine when the invalid xml would be actually useful (since not even property_tree can read it back, correct?).

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