[pmwiki-users] blank line at start of html output

[John Rankin]

One more piece of information: removing the ?> from the end of the 
backup script makes no difference -- still getting a blank line at the 
start of the page source.

JR

On 28/04/14 1:52 PM, John Rankin wrote:
>
> On 27/04/14 9:51 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
>> John Rankin writes:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > John Rankin writes:
>>> ...
>>> >> I can see a blank first line in the regular html output too, so 
>>> it's not
>>> >> an artefact of wikipublisher's output.
>>> >>
>>> >> I am unable to figure out where pmwiki inserts this blank first 
>>> line and
>>> >> how to prevent it. Any help would be appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > PmWiki doesn't insert a blank first line. Such lines are sometimes
>>> > inserted
>>> > by recipe which contain a closing ?> PHP tag followed by a new 
>>> line. In
>>> > this
>>> > case, the backup_pages.php recipe inserts this new line.
>>> >
>>> > It is recommended to remove the closing ?> tag from all scripts, see:
>>> >
>>> >   http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DesignNotes
>>>
>>> Ah, thank you.
>>>
>>> However, I checked and include url doesn't have a closing ?> tag. I 
>>> can't
>>> see what this script is doing that could generate an empty first 
>>> line. My
>>> user has tested this with and without includeurl -- on his system, it
>>> causes an empty first line.
>>
>> I didn't write that includeurl causes this, I wrote that 
>> backup_pages.php causes this.
> OK, I asked the user to re-test this (cc'd) and he tells me that both 
> the backup and includeurl scripts independently cause a blank line at 
> the start of the html and wikibook xml output. However, I have 
> installed includeurl on a test system and am unable to replicate the 
> problem.
>
> I'm waiting to hear the result of removing the closing ?> from the 
> backup script, but I'm at a loss as to how to proceed with includeurl, 
> given that I can't reproduce the behaviour.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> JR
>

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