FW: GME Meta bug

[Peter Volgyesi]

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From: 	Peter Volgyesi[SMTP:XVOLGY at ISIS-SERVER.ISIS.VANDERBILT.EDU]
Sent: 	Monday, November 18, 2002 10:05:08 AM
To: 	GME Group
Subject: 	Re: FW: GME Meta bug
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> 
> I am using ">" symbol in one of my attribute prompts. Here is a snippet
> from the generated .xmp file:
> 
>  
> 
>       <attrdef name="AbsoluteLowerBound" metaref = "1149" valuetype =
> "string" defvalue = "">
> 
>          <dispname>> (mandatory) :</dispname>
> 
>       </attrdef>
> 
>  
> 
> GME barfs when trying to register this xmp file, which is quite obvious.
> My question is: Shouldn't the meta-interpreter be automatically
> generating escape sequences for xml-reserved characters? 
err...yes. The general problem is that the MetaInterpreter uses 
"printf"-like statements to generate the XMP file. We should rewrite 
this to use XML dumper functions (in xerces or whatever).


> Peter, is there a separate buglist for reporting Meta-environment
> bugs?

No (I don't know about any ;) ).
Many meta related problems are not specific to the metainterpreter, so I 
can live with only one list... What we would need is a bugtracking 
system, where you guys could check the state of your reports. It is my 
fault that such a service does not exist today.

--
peter