Re: problem with keywords in XML files

[Paul Sander]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Jim Hyslop wrote:

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> Julian Opificius wrote:
> > cvs-1.12.9-2.2 on Suse Linux 9.2
> >
> > We've just started adding Source, Revision, Date, and Log keywords in
> > XML files we're checking into CVS.
> >
> > The first three (located at the top of the file) are OK, but CVS does
> > not put the "-->" comment closer at the end of the log entries (at the
> > end of the file), and the application reading them is getting upset.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> You are expecting too much from CVS. It has no knowledge of specific
> file formats or comment delimiters. It is up to you to place the 
> closing
> delimiters in the file.

In other words, you have to do something like this:

<--
$Log$
-->

And then you have to hope that no one ever puts "-->" in their commit 
comment, because it will end the comment prematurely as far as it 
concerns the XML parser.  (You can install a commitinfo script to 
enforce this, if necessary.)

But in the long run it's actually better to turn off keyword expansion, 
for many reasons.

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