[oXygen-user] Potential IE whitespace issue in Oxygen

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith]

Thanks for the feedback George.

So, if I understand you correctly, there are no binary whitespace  
characters added that might trip IE up. However, Visual Studio does  
seem to show some at the tail of the file. A material difference is in  
the way that empty elements are handled, and in this case there  
appears to be 10 such expansions. Can you tell which of these  
expansions is tripping IE up?

I honestly do not think this is you problem since both version  
validate perfectly well. It is a problem in IE - which unfortunately  
makes it a problem that can't be ignored by any of us.

The most frustrating aspect of this problem is that IE and the  
associated development tools provide no indication whatsoever of where  
the problem might be.

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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