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[netCDF #TSE-683024]: Treatment of non-breaking space

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  • Subject: [netCDF #TSE-683024]: Treatment of non-breaking space
  • Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:52:34 -0700
Hello Martin,

Thanks for the heads up regarding this.  I'm not an expert in XML, but I will 
read up on the standard and see if there are any changes we can make, without 
breaking software that reads NcML (and is thus, presumably, able to handle this 
non-standard-XML behavior).

Have a great day!

-Ward

> Hello,
> 
> I came across an awkward feature in NCML files created with "ncdump -x
> ..." when the NetCDF file has non-breaking spaces ("�") in the global
> attributes. This character appears to be legal in the NetCDF files (they
> are not my files ... otherwise I would simply leave it out) but they
> are not allowed in XML. I can deal with this by stripping them out of
> the document, but I thought you might like to know about this glytch --
> it would be nice if ncdump could at least give a warning,
> 
> regards,
> Martin
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: TSE-683024
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed