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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2013 07:02:35 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
Subject:   Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports
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On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>=20
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 12:24, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, if only I'd know about this 6 months ago :)
>>=20
>> I just wrote it from scratch, so didn't exist until today ;D
>=20
> Hah nice, although I imagine there is plenty of legal XML it can't parse.
>=20
> That plays to another point about this sort of work - it's very hard to w=
rite shell script that will work properly in all cases (things like spaces,=
 or even newlines and unprintable characters in filenames).
>=20

If I had spent more time on it, then it would be able to parse any
XML. However, it wasn't worth going further without first having
a look at the C code that produces the output.

For example, different XML encoding libraries may encode the
property values more or less strictly (for example, are values
properly encoded to prevent a value of "</name>" (for example)
from prematurely terminating the property borking the XML
valiation. (my guess would be that it would be encoded fully as
"<name>&lt;/name&gt;</name>".

Just a matter of extending the extract_data() and extract_attr()
functions and then generalizing a little more.
--=20
Devin

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