syndication framework includes an extra newline using default templates

[Robert Hopson]

The syndication framework default behavior is to load templates named feeds/<slug>_title.html and feeds/<slug>_description.html.

The newline at the end of these files is include in the rendered output, which for HTML doesn't really matter but could for XML. So rather than:

<title>Testo<title>

a person ends up with

<title>Testo
</title>

It is easy to fix this behavior by subclassing Feed so I'm not sure if it's a huge deal - maybe worth documenting somehow?

[Arthur Koziel]

I don't see where the problem is, if you include a newline it will be output and if not then, well, not.

[Robert Hopson]

True, but what I'm saying is that most text editors treat that newline at the end of the file as a special case, and don't display it, and insert it automatically. So most people can ignore the fact that it's there (and do). And, it's downright difficult to get rid of, and when you do, many tools (including svn) complain about the missing newline.

And again, since it's being included in the rendered output, it is the actual data in the XML is different, and it's not immediately obvious why. In my case I was consuming the feeds in another application, and I only noticed the extra space because all comparisons based on the values of XML fields would fail.

I'm okay with this being a non-issue - it probably won't affect most people, there are several ways to work around it, and I can't think of a great way to fix or document it; I just thought I'd bring it up.

[Jacob]

Yeah, I think it's a non-issue.