prettier / prettier/plugin-xml
Formatter fails on XML file with entity definitions
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Description
Formatter fails with output:
Formatter failed, skipping: default prettier instance failed to format buffer: SyntaxError: unexpected character: ->[<- at offset: 70, skipped 1 characters. (3:26)
Input XML is attached. It is actually XSL but you can't attach that file type.
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Research direction
Download the attached content.xml and use it as the reproduction input for the XML formatter. Start by reproducing the reported failure around the entity definitions and XSL content, then verify that the same file formats successfully without the unexpected-character error.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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