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VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of B2B
formats that do this.

If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these are
inserted into XML as Payload the
XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the fields
at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now garbage.

Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over this ?
Other ideas ?


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RE: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by Kim Horn <ki...@icsglobal.net>.
Sorry have had no time before but I had a look into this, one of the developers suggested this is the case with one partner but not others. So some partners handle this by using just CDATA. Another requires a known character delimiter at the start and end to define the boundaries of the white space, at the start and end of the data. They commonly use ". In all cases the recipients need the CDATA. So that's where the "" come from.

Initially I tested this by using a message injector instead of VFS, to inject a CDATA wrapped test file.
This is what we normally do by hand using SOAPUI.
This worked, so I wrongly assumed it was VFS, as we get this issue all the time. Then I thought it may be
Intermediate mediator but no, you are right, its just the destination. A mediator that builds Java object from the
Data then writes them back to XML could screw up the data if it was not aware of the data format and trimmed the
String.

So solution is we have to add the CDATA etc on way out of Synapse.

Thanks for your help

Kim


-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Veithen [mailto:andreas.veithen@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, 5 April 2009 5:15 AM
To: dev@synapse.apache.org
Subject: Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

From what you say it seem pretty clear that the whitespace is lost
outside of Synapse. I agree that sending a CDATA node instead of a
text node may solve that. What I don't understand is where the double
quotes come into play. If you usually solve the problem by adding
quotes, than this means that your target service actually expects
double quotes. Can you clarify this point?

Andreas

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 00:04, Kim Horn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
> In theory you are correct but we have been a Web Service B2B shop for about
> 10 years and nothing can be assumed to work according to standards. We know
> that unless such elements are wrapped in CDATA the white space will get
> removed somewhere. Opinions on the net:
>
> "Now when the XML specification says any white space, they don’t really
> mean it. HA! The standards leave some aspects of white space handling up to
> the implementers, or at least that’s what the implementers would have us
> believe. I suspect some implementers choose to ignore parts of the standards
> they don’t like or can’t accommodate easily in their toolsets. It’s
> inevitable that different XML parsers make different interpretations of the
> standards. This leads to some fuzzy behavior where white space is
> concerned."
>
> another openxml rfp:
> "White space handling is an unresolved issue in the present definition of
> XML parsers, falling outside the scope of both the DOM specification and the
> SAX API."
>
> In our case when we send data on to customer who knows what
> parser/technology gets used. How
> many other routers, mediators, proxies, mess up the XML; using technology
> from 1980's.
> So, in practise, we wrap all text data with leading/trailing spaces with
> CDATA "" "". At the moment for these small files, using this data format
> standard, I am using a JS mediator to take the text payload and insert it
> into destination XML. This means using CDATA to wrap the JS script.. but
> then I can't add in another nested CDATA in the JS script XML to wrap the
> data. So I will have to move this to XSLT or most likely Java. Unless you
> know a way around this.
>
> Unfortunately due to size/volume of files we cannot log them directly in
> synapse. Due to privacy laws in US I cannot see the production data
> directly. so it takes a while to debug these issues.
>
> I trust you, that you believe, it cannot be happening inside Synapse/Axis
> and that really helps rule out where this is happening. But we are loosing
> the spaces; and the first place to rule out when tracing the files through
> the process was Synapse at VFS. Given these problems, wrapping the data at
> the start of the process with CDATA, although a paranoid approach, would
> mean it is then safe all the way through.
>
> Will take a few days to debug this here; tell you what we find.
>
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Veithen [mailto:andreas.veithen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Fri 03/04/2009 19:00
> To: dev@synapse.apache.org
> Subject: Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.
>
> This is not very convincing for several reasons:
>
> * An XML parser never removes whitespace.
> * A validating XML parser reports whitespace _between elements_ in a
> special way, but it is up to the application to decide what to do with
> it. Note that we are not talking about this type of whitespace here.
> * XSLT is not schema aware.
> * While space="preserve" is defined in the XML specs it has no well
> defined semantics and it is up to the application to interpret it.
> * Axis2 and Synapse don't (or at least shouldn't) remove any whitespace.
>
> What you really need to do is to determine at what step in the
> mediation the whitespace is lost. Then we can try to understand why
> this is so.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 07:19, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> You are probably right. Haven't had time to look but I hope the payload
>> "text" element is defined as space="preserve". If yes then its OK, If not
>> then ?
>>
>> Any idea where is the �XSD is easily available ?
>>
>> It is probably one of the mediators removing the white space along the
>> way;
>> as XML does not preserve this. I will have to add in yet again more java
>> to
>> wrap the text field in CDATA "". As the recipient cannot change their XSD,
>> this looks like the only option....Not sure XSLT will work unless target
>> name space also defines the element as space preserve ?
>>
>> My simple Synapse script is becoming a massive Java program. And I thought
>> "wouldn't it be easy
>> to use a scripting tool like Synapse compared to writing Java code ". How
>> wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Andreas Veithen-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
>>> and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
>>> builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
>>> spaces), so this would be a serious bug.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
>>>> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of
>>>> B2B
>>>> formats that do this.
>>>>
>>>> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these
>>>> are
>>>> inserted into XML as Payload the
>>>> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
>>>> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the
>>>> fields
>>>> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now
>>>> garbage.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over
>>>> this
>>>> ?
>>>> Other ideas ?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/VFS-Text-Files-with-spaces-don%27t-work.-tp22841970p22841970.html
>>>> Sent from the Synapse - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by Andreas Veithen <an...@gmail.com>.
>From what you say it seem pretty clear that the whitespace is lost
outside of Synapse. I agree that sending a CDATA node instead of a
text node may solve that. What I don't understand is where the double
quotes come into play. If you usually solve the problem by adding
quotes, than this means that your target service actually expects
double quotes. Can you clarify this point?

Andreas

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 00:04, Kim Horn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
> In theory you are correct but we have been a Web Service B2B shop for about
> 10 years and nothing can be assumed to work according to standards. We know
> that unless such elements are wrapped in CDATA the white space will get
> removed somewhere. Opinions on the net:
>
> "Now when the XML specification says any white space, they don’t really
> mean it. HA! The standards leave some aspects of white space handling up to
> the implementers, or at least that’s what the implementers would have us
> believe. I suspect some implementers choose to ignore parts of the standards
> they don’t like or can’t accommodate easily in their toolsets. It’s
> inevitable that different XML parsers make different interpretations of the
> standards. This leads to some fuzzy behavior where white space is
> concerned."
>
> another openxml rfp:
> "White space handling is an unresolved issue in the present definition of
> XML parsers, falling outside the scope of both the DOM specification and the
> SAX API."
>
> In our case when we send data on to customer who knows what
> parser/technology gets used. How
> many other routers, mediators, proxies, mess up the XML; using technology
> from 1980's.
> So, in practise, we wrap all text data with leading/trailing spaces with
> CDATA "" "". At the moment for these small files, using this data format
> standard, I am using a JS mediator to take the text payload and insert it
> into destination XML. This means using CDATA to wrap the JS script.. but
> then I can't add in another nested CDATA in the JS script XML to wrap the
> data. So I will have to move this to XSLT or most likely Java. Unless you
> know a way around this.
>
> Unfortunately due to size/volume of files we cannot log them directly in
> synapse. Due to privacy laws in US I cannot see the production data
> directly. so it takes a while to debug these issues.
>
> I trust you, that you believe, it cannot be happening inside Synapse/Axis
> and that really helps rule out where this is happening. But we are loosing
> the spaces; and the first place to rule out when tracing the files through
> the process was Synapse at VFS. Given these problems, wrapping the data at
> the start of the process with CDATA, although a paranoid approach, would
> mean it is then safe all the way through.
>
> Will take a few days to debug this here; tell you what we find.
>
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Veithen [mailto:andreas.veithen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Fri 03/04/2009 19:00
> To: dev@synapse.apache.org
> Subject: Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.
>
> This is not very convincing for several reasons:
>
> * An XML parser never removes whitespace.
> * A validating XML parser reports whitespace _between elements_ in a
> special way, but it is up to the application to decide what to do with
> it. Note that we are not talking about this type of whitespace here.
> * XSLT is not schema aware.
> * While space="preserve" is defined in the XML specs it has no well
> defined semantics and it is up to the application to interpret it.
> * Axis2 and Synapse don't (or at least shouldn't) remove any whitespace.
>
> What you really need to do is to determine at what step in the
> mediation the whitespace is lost. Then we can try to understand why
> this is so.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 07:19, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> You are probably right. Haven't had time to look but I hope the payload
>> "text" element is defined as space="preserve". If yes then its OK, If not
>> then ?
>>
>> Any idea where is the �XSD is easily available ?
>>
>> It is probably one of the mediators removing the white space along the
>> way;
>> as XML does not preserve this. I will have to add in yet again more java
>> to
>> wrap the text field in CDATA "". As the recipient cannot change their XSD,
>> this looks like the only option....Not sure XSLT will work unless target
>> name space also defines the element as space preserve ?
>>
>> My simple Synapse script is becoming a massive Java program. And I thought
>> "wouldn't it be easy
>> to use a scripting tool like Synapse compared to writing Java code ". How
>> wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Andreas Veithen-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
>>> and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
>>> builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
>>> spaces), so this would be a serious bug.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
>>>> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of
>>>> B2B
>>>> formats that do this.
>>>>
>>>> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these
>>>> are
>>>> inserted into XML as Payload the
>>>> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
>>>> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the
>>>> fields
>>>> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now
>>>> garbage.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over
>>>> this
>>>> ?
>>>> Other ideas ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> View this message in context:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/VFS-Text-Files-with-spaces-don%27t-work.-tp22841970p22841970.html
>>>> Sent from the Synapse - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
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RE: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by Kim Horn <ki...@icsglobal.net>.
In theory you are correct but we have been a Web Service B2B shop for about 10 years and nothing can be assumed to work according to standards. We know that unless such elements are wrapped in CDATA the white space will get removed somewhere. Opinions on the net:

"Now when the XML specification says any white space, they don’t really mean it. HA! The standards leave some aspects of white space handling up to the implementers, or at least that’s what the implementers would have us believe. I suspect some implementers choose to ignore parts of the standards they don’t like or can’t accommodate easily in their toolsets. It’s inevitable that different XML parsers make different interpretations of the standards. This leads to some fuzzy behavior where white space is concerned."

another openxml rfp:
"White space handling is an unresolved issue in the present definition of XML parsers, falling outside the scope of both the DOM specification and the SAX API."

In our case when we send data on to customer who knows what parser/technology gets used. How
many other routers, mediators, proxies, mess up the XML; using technology from 1980's.
So, in practise, we wrap all text data with leading/trailing spaces with CDATA "" "". At the moment for these small files, using this data format standard, I am using a JS mediator to take the text payload and insert it into destination XML. This means using CDATA to wrap the JS script.. but then I can't add in another nested CDATA in the JS script XML to wrap the data. So I will have to move this to XSLT or most likely Java. Unless you know a way around this.

Unfortunately due to size/volume of files we cannot log them directly in synapse. Due to privacy laws in US I cannot see the production data directly. so it takes a while to debug these issues.  

I trust you, that you believe, it cannot be happening inside Synapse/Axis and that really helps rule out where this is happening. But we are loosing the spaces; and the first place to rule out when tracing the files through the process was Synapse at VFS. Given these problems, wrapping the data at the start of the process with CDATA, although a paranoid approach, would mean it is then safe all the way through. 

Will take a few days to debug this here; tell you what we find.


Thanks
Kim






-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Veithen [mailto:andreas.veithen@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 03/04/2009 19:00
To: dev@synapse.apache.org
Subject: Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.
 
This is not very convincing for several reasons:

* An XML parser never removes whitespace.
* A validating XML parser reports whitespace _between elements_ in a
special way, but it is up to the application to decide what to do with
it. Note that we are not talking about this type of whitespace here.
* XSLT is not schema aware.
* While space="preserve" is defined in the XML specs it has no well
defined semantics and it is up to the application to interpret it.
* Axis2 and Synapse don't (or at least shouldn't) remove any whitespace.

What you really need to do is to determine at what step in the
mediation the whitespace is lost. Then we can try to understand why
this is so.

Andreas

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 07:19, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>
> You are probably right. Haven't had time to look but I hope the payload
> "text" element is defined as space="preserve". If yes then its OK, If not
> then ?
>
> Any idea where is the �XSD is easily available ?
>
> It is probably one of the mediators removing the white space along the way;
> as XML does not preserve this. I will have to add in yet again more java to
> wrap the text field in CDATA "". As the recipient cannot change their XSD,
> this looks like the only option....Not sure XSLT will work unless target
> name space also defines the element as space preserve ?
>
> My simple Synapse script is becoming a massive Java program. And I thought
> "wouldn't it be easy
> to use a scripting tool like Synapse compared to writing Java code ". How
> wrong.
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>
>
>
>
> Andreas Veithen-2 wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
>> and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
>> builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
>> spaces), so this would be a serious bug.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
>>> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of
>>> B2B
>>> formats that do this.
>>>
>>> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these
>>> are
>>> inserted into XML as Payload the
>>> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
>>> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the
>>> fields
>>> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now garbage.
>>>
>>> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over this
>>> ?
>>> Other ideas ?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://www.nabble.com/VFS-Text-Files-with-spaces-don%27t-work.-tp22841970p22841970.html
>>> Sent from the Synapse - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
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Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by Andreas Veithen <an...@gmail.com>.
This is not very convincing for several reasons:

* An XML parser never removes whitespace.
* A validating XML parser reports whitespace _between elements_ in a
special way, but it is up to the application to decide what to do with
it. Note that we are not talking about this type of whitespace here.
* XSLT is not schema aware.
* While space="preserve" is defined in the XML specs it has no well
defined semantics and it is up to the application to interpret it.
* Axis2 and Synapse don't (or at least shouldn't) remove any whitespace.

What you really need to do is to determine at what step in the
mediation the whitespace is lost. Then we can try to understand why
this is so.

Andreas

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 07:19, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>
> You are probably right. Haven't had time to look but I hope the payload
> "text" element is defined as space="preserve". If yes then its OK, If not
> then ?
>
> Any idea where is the  XSD is easily available ?
>
> It is probably one of the mediators removing the white space along the way;
> as XML does not preserve this. I will have to add in yet again more java to
> wrap the text field in CDATA "". As the recipient cannot change their XSD,
> this looks like the only option....Not sure XSLT will work unless target
> name space also defines the element as space preserve ?
>
> My simple Synapse script is becoming a massive Java program. And I thought
> "wouldn't it be easy
> to use a scripting tool like Synapse compared to writing Java code ". How
> wrong.
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>
>
>
>
> Andreas Veithen-2 wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
>> and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
>> builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
>> spaces), so this would be a serious bug.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
>>> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of
>>> B2B
>>> formats that do this.
>>>
>>> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these
>>> are
>>> inserted into XML as Payload the
>>> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
>>> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the
>>> fields
>>> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now garbage.
>>>
>>> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over this
>>> ?
>>> Other ideas ?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://www.nabble.com/VFS-Text-Files-with-spaces-don%27t-work.-tp22841970p22841970.html
>>> Sent from the Synapse - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
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Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net>.
You are probably right. Haven't had time to look but I hope the payload
"text" element is defined as space="preserve". If yes then its OK, If not
then ?

Any idea where is the  XSD is easily available ?

It is probably one of the mediators removing the white space along the way;
as XML does not preserve this. I will have to add in yet again more java to
wrap the text field in CDATA "". As the recipient cannot change their XSD,
this looks like the only option....Not sure XSLT will work unless target
name space also defines the element as space preserve ?

My simple Synapse script is becoming a massive Java program. And I thought
"wouldn't it be easy
to use a scripting tool like Synapse compared to writing Java code ". How
wrong.

Thanks
Kim




Andreas Veithen-2 wrote:
> 
> Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
> and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
> builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
> spaces), so this would be a serious bug.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
>> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of
>> B2B
>> formats that do this.
>>
>> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these
>> are
>> inserted into XML as Payload the
>> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
>> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the
>> fields
>> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now garbage.
>>
>> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over this
>> ?
>> Other ideas ?
>>
>>
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Re: VFS Text Files with spaces don't work.

Posted by Andreas Veithen <an...@gmail.com>.
Are you sure that these spaces get trimmed inside the VFS transport
and not somewhere in your mediation? Normally the plain text message
builder is designed to strictly preserve the file content (including
spaces), so this would be a serious bug.

Andreas

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 08:52, kimhorn <ki...@icsglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Run into a problem with VFS reading text files with fixed field length
> fields, where empty fields are padded with spaces. There are a number of B2B
> formats that do this.
>
> If the empty fields are at the start or end of the file then when these are
> inserted into XML as Payload the
> XML removes the spaces. The text should be wrapped in CDATA with double
> Quotes to preserve this space data; but VFS does not do this. So the fields
> at start or end of file get lost and hence the whole file is now garbage.
>
> Hopefully reading them as binary files (not plan text) will get over this ?
> Other ideas ?
>
>
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