From 3e8dccf6ab0918e89c4275ea9bf454d34e01534b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:02:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Escape newlines in XML attributes to prevent them from
 being   normalised away.

---
 src/libutil/xml-writer.cc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libutil/xml-writer.cc b/src/libutil/xml-writer.cc
index cd37dff56..27235933e 100644
--- a/src/libutil/xml-writer.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/xml-writer.cc
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ void XMLWriter::writeAttrs(const XMLAttrs & attrs)
             if (c == '"') output << "&quot;";
             else if (c == '<') output << "&lt;";
             else if (c == '&') output << "&amp;";
+            /* Escape newlines to prevent attribute normalisation (see
+               XML spec, section 3.3.3. */
+            else if (c == '\n') output << "&#xA;";
             else output << c;
         }
         output << "\"";