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

[Luigi Toscano]

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(Updated March 8, 2014, 11:55 p.m.)


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Review request for Documentation, KDE Frameworks, kdelibs, and Aleix Pol Gonzalez.


Bugs: 246755
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246755


Repository: kdoctools


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
                     ^
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.

Another way to solve the bug is quoting the value of the parameter with '...', replacing:
params.append(qstrdup(parser.value(QStringLiteral("output")).toLocal8Bit().constData()));

with something like
QString quotedOutput = "'" + parser.value(QStringLiteral("output")) + "'";
params.append(qstrdup(quotedOutput.toLocal8Bit().constData()));

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).

A similar patch can be applied to kdelibs/kdoctools too (same codepath).


Diffs
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  src/meinproc.cpp 95adcea 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116604/diff/


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.


Thanks,

Luigi Toscano

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