lshw -xml reporting invalid xml

[Marc Tardif]

According to the XML 1.0 standard, these are the characters allowed between tags:

  Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]

For reference purposes, here is the direct link to the W3 standard:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#charsets

The problem is that the lshw escape function only generates entities from special characters, such as "<", ">" and "&". However, it lets characters outside the allowed set to result in the output. For example, here is output I have encountered recently from the serial number of a CDROM device (where ^@ is a NUL character):

  <serial>[^@^@^@Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S 1.04 Dec21,2007</serial>

I have attached a patch which should solve the problem by removing invalid characters altogether.

[Darik Horn (dajhorn)]

I can confirm the bug. I am trying the patch now.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

Patch was committed upstream: http://ezix.org/project/changeset/2114

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Fixed in new upstream release.