[reportlab-users] Minor bug in test suit test_platypus_pto.py

[Stuart, Robert]

>> This parser is on deathrow anyway so perhaps we have to bite the XML bullet :(

>From the error, I thought you had bitten that bullet ... "xml parser error (garbage in start tag) in paragraph beginning" - see below.

Robert Stuart

Trace snippet:

E
======================================================================
ERROR: test0 (__main__.BreakingTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Python\reportlab_1_20\reportlab\test\test_platypus_pto.py", line 153, in test0
    _breakingTestCase(self)
{snip}
  File "F:\reportlab\reportlab_1_20\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 403, in _setup
xml parser error (garbage in start tag) in paragraph beginning
'<para color=Color(0,0,0)>Inner'

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Ran 1 test in 0.171s

FAILED (errors=1)



-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Becker [mailto:robin at reportlab.com]
Sent: 10 March 2005 13:03
To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Minor bug in test suit
test_platypus_pto.py


Stuart, Robert wrote:
> Minor bug in test suit test_platypus_pto.py
> 
> Line 49 reads:
> 	return Paragraph('<para color=%s>%s</para>' % (c,text),style)
> 
> Should read:
> 	return Paragraph('<para color="%s">%s</para>' % (c,text),style)
> 
> Note the double quotes on the color.
> Without the double quotes, the string "Color(0,0,0)" generates an error.  
> 
> ?Presumably, a named color (e.g. Dark Green) would also generate an error?
> 
> My apologies if this has been reported before.
> 
> Robert Stuart
> 
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Interesting. The back end parser is supposed to be sgml compliant so we 
shouldn't need the ".  I suppose something in Color(0,0,0) ends the attribute 
value prematurely.

This parser is on deathrow anyway so perhaps we have to bite the XML bullet :(
-- 
Robin Becker
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