Review Request 116604: Allow directories with . as output for meinproc

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This review has been submitted with commit 4406199290ab5192c178929fbc56a272e2fa8d7b by Luigi Toscano to branch master.

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On March 5, 2014, 1:06 a.m., Luigi Toscano wrote:
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> (Updated March 5, 2014, 1:06 a.m.)
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> Review request for Documentation, KDE Frameworks, kdelibs, and Aleix Pol Gonzalez.
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> Bugs: 246755
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246755
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> Repository: kdoctools
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> Description
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> The outputFile parameter is not used by the stylesheets, so don't pass it. If a directory starts with ".", it is interpreted in a wrong way by libxslt with an error like:
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> XPath error : Invalid expression
> /home/kde-devel/.cache5/khelpcenter/help/__home__kde-
> devel__kde__share__doc__HTML__en__kioslave__file__index.docbook
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> runtime error
> Evaluating user parameter outputFile failed
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> This is an old issue, it was "solved" on windows by not compiling that code, but I suspect that the issue has been in UNIX systems too for a long time.
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> Another way to solve the bug is quoting the value of the parameter with '...', replacing:
> params.append(qstrdup(parser.value(QStringLiteral("output")).toLocal8Bit().constData()));
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> with something like
> QString quotedOutput = "'" + parser.value(QStringLiteral("output")) + "'";
> params.append(qstrdup(quotedOutput.toLocal8Bit().constData()));
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> but anyway in this case the name of output file is not used, or I can't find any occurrence in the stylesheets. 
> The stylesheet is applied and the name of the file is used only after to write the generated XML (see tranform() function).
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> A similar patch can be applied to kdelibs/kdoctools too (same codepath).
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> Diffs
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>   src/meinproc.cpp 95adcea 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116604/diff/
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> Testing
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> Run meinproc5 (and 4) with -o /something/with/a/.dotdir/myfile.txt (the directory must exist), no error anymore and the file is generated.
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> Thanks,
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> Luigi Toscano
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