Defienetly one for bugzilla.
Steve
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> I was very surprised to discover that LCFGng can produce badly formed XML.
> Anyone who is using LCFGng should be able to go to
> http://lcfgngserver/status and click on the XML profile link for their CE
> and they will find that it is not well formed. This is if you are using
> anything up to v1.4.11 with CE_JOBMANAGERS set to "fork pbs" (which is the
> default) in site-cfg.h. I have just bug reported this (#1093)
>
> This amazes me, because it suggests two things:
>
> 1) The LCFGng profiles are generated as text streams with angle brackets,
> where it is hoped that the output is well formed (or a variation on this
> theme such as a non-standard XML generator with a bug in it, or text
> post-processing of the profile), which are not checked for well formedness
> before being output.
>
> 2) The LCFGng client is reading these profiles without complaining about
> them being badly formed. I can only assume this is the case, otherwise
> there would be a bug report about it, or some error message popping up
> somewhere, or the system not getting configured properly because the
> profile cannot be read.
>
> In any case, the fact that "almost XML" can be generated and read by the
> system is worrying, and I thought it worth mentioning here.
>
> Ian.
>
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