[x3d-public] question on MFStrings in XML.

[Don Brutzman]

again agreed, i will try to produce diagnostics in various places to support detection and correction of the problem.


On 5/20/2017 11:33 AM, Joe D Williams wrote:
>> mailer produces when I type the " key
> 
> ooh, too bad since those are poison in unescaped user code.
> Does ithe characters change if you paste?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Carlson" <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> To: "Joe D Williams" <joedwil at earthlink.net>; "Don Brutzman" <brutzman at nps.edu>
> Cc: "X3D Graphics public mailing list" <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 8:39 AM
> Subject: RE: [x3d-public] question on MFStrings in XML.
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, it’s what my mailer produces when I type the " key.
> 
> John
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 
> From: Joe D Williams
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 10:48 AM
> To: John Carlson; Don Brutzman
> Cc: X3D Graphics public mailing list
> Subject: Re: [x3d-public] question on MFStrings in XML.
> 
>>   ‘“FIRE” “”
> 
> please stop using those literary style quotes and apostrophies from
> cap numbers.
> 
> html does not like them and they are not part of the xml markup scheme
> 
> double and single quotes are not the right and left quotes and
> apostrophies.
> 
> The above example should never work like that. Those are special
> characters, not markup so this will never work in vrml, xml, x3d user
> code strings as markup. If allowed it is bigmistake.
> .
> All Best,
> Joe
> .
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Brutzman" <brutzman at nps.edu>
> To: "John Carlson" <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> Cc: "X3D Graphics public mailing list" <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [x3d-public] question on MFStrings in XML.
> 
> 
>> On 5/19/2017 9:06 AM, John Carlson wrote:
>>> I’m not worried about the extra spaces, I’m worried about the
>>> missing space between the 2^nd and 3^rd strings, and how we are
>>> going to handle it in X3dToJson.xslt, compared to ‘“FIRE” “” “FIRE”’
>>
>> there is a space character (between second and third SFString
>> values) in the source and my reply... perhaps earlier mail got
>> squished? or am i missing something?
>>
>> agreed that whitespace is necessary between SFString values in an
>> MFString array.
>>
>> all the best, Don
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all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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