From 7275dc4d919b0cb6f8713d0b4a9a2b507051cded Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:25:51 +0200
Subject: Add value_traits specialization for std::string

The default implementation uses istream::operator>> which ignores
spaces.
---
 tests/parser/driver.cxx | 12 ++++++++++++
 xml/value-traits        | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/parser/driver.cxx b/tests/parser/driver.cxx
index 4e0fbae..c1c6f3d 100644
--- a/tests/parser/driver.cxx
+++ b/tests/parser/driver.cxx
@@ -470,4 +470,16 @@ main ()
     assert (v[3] == parser::end_element);
     assert (v[4] == parser::end_element);
   }
+
+  // Test space extraction into the std::string value.
+  //
+  {
+    istringstream is ("<root a=' a '> b </root>");
+    parser p (is, "test");
+    p.next_expect (parser::start_element, "root");
+    assert (p.attribute<std::string> ("a") == " a ");
+    p.next_expect (parser::characters);
+    assert (p.value<std::string> () == " b ");
+    p.next_expect (parser::end_element);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/xml/value-traits b/xml/value-traits
index 3bf10e0..0c79229 100644
--- a/xml/value-traits
+++ b/xml/value-traits
@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@ namespace xml
     }
   };
 
+  template <>
+  struct LIBSTUDXML_EXPORT default_value_traits<std::string>
+  {
+    static std::string
+    parse (std::string s, const parser&)
+    {
+      return s;
+    }
+
+    static std::string
+    serialize (const std::string& v, const serializer&)
+    {
+      return v;
+    }
+  };
+
   template <typename T>
   struct value_traits: default_value_traits<T> {};
 
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