r23598 - gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml - Bug 710824 - GnuCash should sanitise UTF-8 before serialising files

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at code.gnucash.org> writes:

> Author: jralls
> Date: 2013-12-22 17:32:04 -0500 (Sun, 22 Dec 2013)
> New Revision: 23598
> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/23598
>
> Added:
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/gnc-xml-helper.c
> Modified:
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/gnc-recurrence-xml-v2.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/gnc-schedxaction-xml-v2.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/gnc-transaction-xml-v2.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/gnc-xml-helper.h
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/io-gncxml-v2.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/sixtp-dom-generators.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/sixtp-to-dom-parser.c
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/test/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/backend/xml/test/test-string-converters.c
> Log:
> Bug 710824 - GnuCash should sanitise UTF-8 before serialising files
>
> to avoid writing broken unparseable XML.
> This checks for both bad UTF8 and for invalid control characters
> that libxml2 doesn't convert to entities.

Are we going to need a similar process for the SQL backend?

-derek

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