Whitespace characters in attribute values are not normalized

[bwrrp]

I have an XML document containing an attribute with carriage return characters: (https://github.com/w3c/xsdtests/blob/master/msData/regex/RegexTest_63.xml)

If I read the XML spec correctly regarding attribute value normalization (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#AVNormalize), I think these should be normalized to a single space character. However, the following test case shows that this does not currently happen:

const p = new saxes.SaxesParser();
p.onopentag = n => console.log(JSON.stringify(n.attributes['att']));
p.write('<doc att="a\rb"/>').close();
// logs "a\rb"

[lddubeau]

That's a bug. Thank you for the informative report. I've been working on 4.0.0 these days (rc2 is out for trial, rc3 is being worked on), which fixes a slew of problems with EOL handling. I'm going to squeeze this in (probably in rc3). This issue was in sax, and I did not detect the issue when I forked saxes from sax.

I recall looking at that section of the spec before, but I believe that was when I was working on salve as a consumer of parsing output rather than a producer of that output.

[lddubeau]

I've just pushed out rc4 which contains a fix. It would be good if you could try it. (rc3 was a misfire... ☹️ )

(You'll have to install saxes@next to get rc4.)

[bwrrp]

That was fast! I can confirm that each \r has now been turned into a space. The XML file linked in the original issue does not contain a doctype, which is probably why these three spaces are not further combined into one, so this seems to be working as expected. Thanks!