FIX: FFCs - Problem with Element Tag With _XMLTag in _html.vcx

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

You create an instance of the _XMLTag Foundation class in _HTML.vcx. You set the Tagname and Value properties for the object, then check the value of the XMLText property. The element tag stored in the XMLText property is not properly optimized if the tag contents is empty.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Run the following code from a program (.PRG) file:




oXml=NEWOBJECT("_xmltag",HOME()+"ffc\_html")
oXml.Tagname="foo"
oXml.Value="test"
?oXml.XMLText 

2. The value printed to the desktop will be:




<foo value="test"></foo> 

3. The proper value should be:




<foo value="test"/> 

REFERENCES

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Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbFFC kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug