[ expat-Bugs-447197 ] NULLs as whitespace or character data

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Bugs item #447197, was opened at 2001-08-02 07:54
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Category: None
>Group: Not a Bug
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Keith Tingle (ktingle)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: NULLs as whitespace or character data

Initial Comment:
We had a nasty bug in a Perl script that embedded NULL 
values into our Xml documents.

msxml treated the NULL values as whitespace and 
ignored them, Expat will not handle NULL values in the 
stream.

Neither seems correct to me as the spec says nothing 
about NULLs being treated as whitespace and character 
data is anything that is not markup data;

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-chardata

I know this is esoteric but shouldn't Expat treat 
NULLs as character data?



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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-08-17 12:02

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The ASCII NUL character is illegal in XML; see section 2.2
of the XML 1.0 recommendation.  More MSXML3.0 and the
MSXML4.0 preview releases supposedly fix this if they are
not being used in backward-compatibility mode (i.e., use the
version-specific CLSIDs, and you get conforming behavior).

Classifying this as "not a bug."

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