[augeas-devel] augtool is choking on xml - help!

Biltong biltong at fastmail.fm
Fri Feb 17 12:59:58 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> On 17/02/12 11:24, Biltong wrote:
> > I can't see what I am doing wrong. Can anyone help?
> >
> > $ cat /tmp/web.xml
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> [snip]
> > augtool> print /augeas/files/tmp/web.xml/error
> > /augeas/files/tmp/web.xml/error = "parse_failed"
> > /augeas/files/tmp/web.xml/error/pos = "43"
> > /augeas/files/tmp/web.xml/error/line = "1"
> > /augeas/files/tmp/web.xml/error/char = "43"
> 
> Does the file have Windows/DOS style line endings?  Try dos2unix?

Aha! That was it - thanks! So I guess this is a bug on my side, since
XML files should use unix line endings?

Okay to file an RFE for a nicer error?

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