[libvirt] [PATCH] allow (only) surrounding whitespace in uuid

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:43:41PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:51:06PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > > Please consider something along these lines. Without it, pretty-printed
> > > domxml is rejected due to the whitespace before uuid, and long long
> > > string of hexadecimal digits is accepted.
> > > ---
> 
> > 
> >   Yes that looks fine to me and testing for NUL termination sound
> > important, ACK,
> > 
> >    pushed, thanks !
> 
> Thank you. Though since I've sent that, I noticed that surrounding
> whitespace is a more general problem of xml text nodes, such as the
> <os><type> element.
> 
> Should libvirt consider any surrounding whitespace as insignificant?

No, IMHO we should preserve all whitespace. I don't actually agree
with the patch that DV just committed to trim whitespace in UUID
since it introduces a one-off special case in the XML handling when
none of the other elements are trimmed.


Daniel
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