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28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue

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From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <public <at> protesilaos.com>
Subject: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:44:48 +0100

Starting with `emacs -Q`:

(require 'xml)
(xml-escape-string "And now it\342\200\231s all this")

The result is: `xml-escape-string: Invalid XML character: 4194274, 
11`

I expect that the string will parse correctly with these escape 
characters. Or is this expectation wrong?

In GNU Emacs 28.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2023-08-25 built on pop-os
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Message #8 received at 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
Cc: public <at> protesilaos.com, 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:08:12 +0300

> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <public <at> protesilaos.com>
> From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:44:48 +0100
> 
> Starting with `emacs -Q`:
> 
> (require 'xml)
> (xml-escape-string "And now it\342\200\231s all this")
> 
> The result is: `xml-escape-string: Invalid XML character: 4194274, 
> 11`
> 
> I expect that the string will parse correctly with these escape 
> characters. Or is this expectation wrong?

Your expectation is wrong, AFAIU: you are inserting a unibyte string
(a string made out of raw bytes) instead of inserting a non-ASCII
multibyte string, which is what XML expects.

Why did you need to insert those bytes, and where did they come from?

Message #11 received at 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: public <at> protesilaos.com, 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:15:29 +0200

Okay, good to know. Thanks for taking a look.

Here is some additional context. It occurs when using Elfeed's 
~elfeed-export-opml~ on my list of RSS feeds. It seems the library 
relies on ~xml-escape-string~ to parse each element. It's worth 
noting that this happens on several feeds, not just the feed for 
leancrew.com listed below.

I can file a bug with the package maintainers but I wasn't sure if 
the XML parser was a better place to start. Here is the specific 
backtrace, if it's useful:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (xml-invalid-character 4194274 11)
 signal(xml-invalid-character (4194274 11))
 xml-escape-string("And now it\342\200\231s all this")
 xml-debug-print-internal((outline ((xmlUrl 
 . "https://leancrew.com/all-this/feed/") (title . "And now 
 it\342\200\231s all this"))) "    ")
 ...

/David

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <public <at> protesilaos.com>
>> From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:44:48 +0100
>>
>> Starting with `emacs -Q`:
>>
>> (require 'xml)
>> (xml-escape-string "And now it\342\200\231s all this")
>>
>> The result is: `xml-escape-string: Invalid XML character: 
>> 4194274,
>> 11`
>>
>> I expect that the string will parse correctly with these escape
>> characters. Or is this expectation wrong?
>
> Your expectation is wrong, AFAIU: you are inserting a unibyte 
> string
> (a string made out of raw bytes) instead of inserting a 
> non-ASCII
> multibyte string, which is what XML expects.
>
> Why did you need to insert those bytes, and where did they come 
> from?


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Message #14 received at 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
Cc: public <at> protesilaos.com, 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:21:34 +0300

> From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
> Cc: 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, public <at> protesilaos.com
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:15:29 +0200
> 
> Okay, good to know. Thanks for taking a look.
> 
> Here is some additional context. It occurs when using Elfeed's 
> ~elfeed-export-opml~ on my list of RSS feeds. It seems the library 
> relies on ~xml-escape-string~ to parse each element. It's worth 
> noting that this happens on several feeds, not just the feed for 
> leancrew.com listed below.

OK, but still: how did you get to that point?  Where did the
problematic string originate from?  Was it something that you typed or
copy/pasted, or something else?

> I can file a bug with the package maintainers but I wasn't sure if 
> the XML parser was a better place to start.

Yes, I think it is best to start by reporting this to package
maintainers.

Message #21 received at 70076-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70076-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, public <at> protesilaos.com,
 "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
Subject: Re: bug#70076: 28.3; xml-escape-string parse issue
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:11:45 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "D. Schmudde" <d <at> schmud.de>
>> Cc: 70076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, public <at> protesilaos.com
>> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:15:29 +0200
>>
>> Okay, good to know. Thanks for taking a look.
>>
>> Here is some additional context. It occurs when using Elfeed's
>> ~elfeed-export-opml~ on my list of RSS feeds. It seems the library
>> relies on ~xml-escape-string~ to parse each element. It's worth
>> noting that this happens on several feeds, not just the feed for
>> leancrew.com listed below.
>
> OK, but still: how did you get to that point?  Where did the
> problematic string originate from?  Was it something that you typed or
> copy/pasted, or something else?
>
>> I can file a bug with the package maintainers but I wasn't sure if
>> the XML parser was a better place to start.
>
> Yes, I think it is best to start by reporting this to package
> maintainers.

This doesn't seem like a bug in Emacs, and we didn't hear anything in 3
months.  I'm therefore closing this bug.

If this is still an issue, please reply to this email (use "Reply to
all" in your email client) and we can reopen the bug report.

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