[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#574104: Bug#574104: libxml2: considers null bytes as EOF markers

[Jakub Wilk]

* Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>, 2010-03-16, 12:23:
>> libxml2 ignores null bytes (and following bytes) in an XML file:
>>
>> $ printf '<test/>\0junk' | xmlwf
>> STDIN:1:7: not well-formed (invalid token)
>>
>> $ printf '<test/>\0junk' | xmllint -
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <test/>
>
>For a starter, libxml2 treats your data as UTF-8, and as such uses null
>terminated strings, so this is not an unexpected behaviour.

Huh? Why should I care about such implementation details? I care about 
behaviour, which is broken. (Anyway, UTF-8 and null-terminated string 
are *unrelated* concepts.)

>Secondly, the null character is not allowed in a xml file.

That's my point. It is not allowed, yet xmllint happily accept files 
containing it as well-formed.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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