Re: [Qexo-general] Canonical XML Output - possible bug?

[Per Bothner]

Craig Munday wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting Qexo to produce canonical XML output.  Even
> though I use the option --output-format xml I still see end tags formatted
> as <empty-tag/>.

I htink it is reasonable to follow the guidelines in the "XSLT 2.0 and 
XQuery 1.0 Serialization" draft.  So --output-format should output 
according to XML Output Method.  I don't see anything there that says 
the output should be canonical.  However, I think it is reasonable.

I think --output-format xhtml is a good default because it is generally 
most useful.

> I had a look in the XMLPrinter.java class and noticed that the endGroup()
> method will produce canonical output if the data member canonicalize is true
> (which is the default) and htmlCompat is false.  As it happens htmlCompat is
> initialised to true, and their no code to set this to false.

It should probably be initialized to false.

In addition, the getOutputConsumer method in XQuery.java should be 
modified, probably to return XMLPrinter.make(out, "xhtml").  That way 
the default remains xhtml - but we can override it.

Perhaps you could try this?  (I'm in the middle of a major er-working on 
path expression, so hopefully Qexo will have a correct and more complete 
implementation "soon".)
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