[oXygen-user] Potential IE whitespace issue in Oxygen

[Dan Caprioara]

Hello Steven,

You could try adding a space or a comment between the "script" tags.
In this way the Author will preserve the two tags when saving the document.

More reading about IE and XHTML whitespaces:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69913/why-dont-self-closing-script-tags-work

Many regards,
Dan



Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
> Dear George,
> 
> With this pointer from you, I seem to have identified the exact problem. 
> It has nothing to do with the introduction of binary characters or the 
> like.
> 
> Oxygen converts
> 
>     <script .... ></script>
> 
> to
> 
>     <script .... />
> 
> and this appears to be what causes the rendering engine in IE to visit 
> outer space. IE is obviously unaware that it does this and so is happy 
> to report no error whatsoever.
> 
> With respect,
> Steven
> 
> -- 
>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
>     http://iase.info
>     http://senses.info
> 
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:40 PM, George Cristian Bina wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> With the default settings and using the XML Accurate as algorithm I 
>> get 294 differences between the two files.
>> Enabling the "Ignore whitespaces" option results in 10 differences.
>> Enabling also "Ignore expansion state for empty elements" gets no 
>> differences.
>>
>> So, basically all the changes are in how empty elements are written.
>>
>> oXygen does not apply any formating if you open a file in the Text 
>> page, unless you turn on "Format and indent the document on open". 
>> However, if you open the document in Author mode then oXygen will 
>> parse the document on open and will serialize it on save, that causing 
>> a formatting to be applied according with the format and indent 
>> settings. I suppose that happened in your case.
>> We are working to make the Author mode to keep the document part that 
>> was not changed as it was wrt formatting. Hopefully that will be 
>> available in the next maintenance release.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
>> -- 
>> George Cristian Bina
>> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
>>> Try
>>>     http://www.memeio.com/index.xhtml
>>> and
>>>     http://www.memeio.com/saved-by-oxygen.xhtml
>>> The Oxygen "compare files" notes no differences between these files,  
>>> yet one is rendered by IE and the other is not.
>>> I develop on the Mac but if you load these files into Visual Studio 
>>> on  a Windows machine you will discover the same effect, one renders, 
>>> the  other does not. And if you really want to be misled (or find the 
>>> real  problem) in Visual Studio: in the file that does not render, 
>>> delete  the javascript imports from the header one at a time starting 
>>> with my  code and then Yahoo's. The page will render after you delete 
>>> the YUI  utilities.js import.
>>> No problem is evident in any other browser and the issue appears  
>>> relevant to all versions of IE.
>>> With respect,
>>> Steven
>>> -- 
>>>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>>>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
>>>     http://iase.info
>>>     http://senses.info
>>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Dan Caprioara wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> This is an unusual situation.
>>>>
>>>> Please send us (support at oxygenxml.com) the original file and the  
>>>> one from the server.
>>>>
>>>> Many regards,
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
>>>>> Dear George et al.,
>>>>> I note a problem that cost me several hours of debugging.
>>>>> If I generate a strict and validated xhtml file through Saxon and  
>>>>> then  read it into the editor so that I can save it to a URI, the  
>>>>> file no  longer renders in IE, though it is still fine in other  
>>>>> browsers. If I  simply copy the file to it's destination with a  
>>>>> filesystem copy then  it works fine in IE.
>>>>> I am surprised that IE barfs on whitespace, but also concerned  
>>>>> that  Oxygen adds something troublesome into the file. On a brief  
>>>>> inspection  the problem seems to be both in the main text (the  
>>>>> header is where I  traced an unexplainable issue to using Visual  
>>>>> Studio) and in the tail  of the file, which appears to have 
>>>>> garbage  attached.
>>>>> With respect,
>>>>> Steven
>>>>> -- 
>>>>>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>>>>>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
>>>>>     http://iase.info
>>>>>     http://senses.info
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> -- 
>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
>     http://iase.info
>     http://senses.info
> 
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