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[Stephen Jarjoura <address@concealed>]

I have run into the same problem. The XML module that Sympa uses flags empty tags as invalid, though I thought that the XML spec allowed them. In any case, my solution was to omit any tags that didn't have values. That's worked very well for me.

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Stephen A. Jarjoura
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Boston College
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:33 AM Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <address@concealed> wrote:

On 3/6/20 4:03 PM, TISSOT Jacques wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
>
> I just updated SYMPA from version 6.1.25 to last version 6.2.54 (Debian 9). But now I could not create a list per command line with XML template :
>
> root@serveur: /usr/bin/sympa -d --add_list=indigo  --robot=unifr.ch --input_file=/mnt/shared/indigo/prune/prune.xml
> create_automatic_list [user] XXX
> Impossible to add a list to the family indigo
>
> MORE INFOS:
>
> Error in the sympa.log file:
>
> Feb 27 12:02:06 svx-sympa2 sympa[18444]: err main::#731 > Sympa::Spindle::spin#95 > Sympa::Request::Handler::create_list::_twist#66 Error in representation data with these xml data
>

Hello Jacques,

this line breaks it:

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/blob/sympa-6.2/src/lib/Sympa/Config_XML.pm#L171

The problem is caused by tags without body or children like <owner_include multiple="1"/>.

I think we should not return undef without throwing an error.

Regards
           Racke

>
> XML template file: prune.xml:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' ?>
> <list>
>       <listname>prune</listname>
>       <subject>Prunes à l Université</subject>
>       <description>aaa</description>
>       <status>open</status>
>       <send>newsletter</send>
>       <shared_edit>editor</shared_edit>
>       <language>fr</language>
>       <owner multiple="1">
>          <email>address@concealed</email>
>          <gecos>Jacques Tissot</gecos>
>       </owner>
>       <owner_include multiple="1"/>
>       <editor_include multiple="1"/>
>         <topics>computing/DIT</topics>
> </list>
>
> AND config.tt2 file (extract):
>
> ..
> [% IF owner_include -%]
>   owner_include
>   source include_file
>   reception mail
>   visibility noconceal
>   source_parameters /mnt/shared/indigo/[% listname %]/owners.txt
> [% END %]
>
> [% IF editor_include -%]
>   editor_include
>   source include_file
>   reception mail
>   visibility noconceal
>   source_parameters /mnt/shared/indigo/[% listname %]/moderators.txt
> [% END %]
> ..
>
>
> This was good running under version 6.1. The problem seems to be with editor/owner_include part.
>
>
> Thank you for help
>
> J. Tissot
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jacques Tissot         
> University of Fribourg  - SWITZERLAND
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>


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