kern/104389: [geom] [patch] sys/geom/geom_dump.c doesn't encode XML entities

[Dennis Berger]

Yes I found this version much better than the one before.

regards,
-Dennis

doug steinwand schrieb:
> * Dennis Berger <db at nipsi.de> [2007-03-06 16:53:44 +0100]:
>   
>> This way we can escape all illegal characters.
>> What do you suggest?
>>     
>
> The gstat and other geom applications basically use expat to parse
> the equivalent of "sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml". This output does
> not have an encoding specified, so expat accepts only ASCII.  As
> such, bytes greater than 0x7e must be encoded.
>
> http://skew.org/xml/tutorial/
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
>
> Attached is a patch which attempts to output valid XML for all cases
> (any value between 0x00 and 0xff). One issue is that many bytes
> between 0x00 and 0x1f have no valid XML coding, so this patch
> replaces them with '?' (such things should not appear in geom names,
> though).
>
> Also, it seems that expat is attempting to convert bytes from
> iso-8859-1 into utf8 characters, so gstat and glabel output may
> look weird.
>
>  - doug
>   
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