perf(mtconnect): stream sample-chunk parsing through XmlReader; no per-chunk document tree

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Joseph Doherty
2026-08-17 03:57:16 -04:00
parent d884934593
commit cda82c074e
3 changed files with 415 additions and 83 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
using System.Globalization;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
@@ -60,6 +61,28 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.MTConnect;
/// </item>
/// </list>
/// <para>
/// <b>The read is forward-only.</b> A <c>/sample</c> chunk is parsed once and thrown away,
/// so it is read straight off an <see cref="XmlReader"/> rather than through an
/// <see cref="XDocument"/>: on the pump's hot path the tree was pure garbage — one
/// <c>XElement</c> plus its attributes and text nodes per observation, per chunk, per
/// second — and nothing here needs a second look at a node it has already passed. The
/// extraction is unchanged; the two rules that keep it honest are that whitespace-only text
/// nodes are dropped exactly as <see cref="XDocument"/> dropped them (see
/// <see cref="ReaderSettings"/>), and that an observation's slot in the result list is
/// reserved <i>before</i> its subtree is read so observations still arrive in document
/// order. The one place a tree is still built is the cold non-<c>MTConnectStreams</c> root
/// below, where the Agent's own error text has to be lifted out of a document this parser
/// is otherwise finished with.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// <b>One thing did change, and only for a document that is wrong twice over.</b> A missing
/// <c>&lt;Header&gt;</c> used to be reported ahead of a malformed observation, because the
/// tree could be interrogated in whatever order suited; forward-only, the header is not
/// known to be missing until the root's children have run out, so the observation is
/// reported first. Both are <see cref="InvalidDataException"/>, and nothing that is wrong in
/// only one way reports differently than it did.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// <b>Failure posture.</b> A malformed document, a non-<c>MTConnectStreams</c> root (an Agent
/// <c>MTConnectError</c> served under HTTP 200 included), an unusable header, or an
/// observation missing its <c>dataItemId</c>/<c>timestamp</c> all throw
@@ -87,10 +110,32 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
private const string HeaderOwner = "the <Header>";
/// <summary>
/// The three elements whose element children are observations. A ComponentStream may carry
/// any subset of them, including none.
/// How the whole document is read. Two settings are load-bearing rather than incidental.
/// </summary>
private static readonly string[] ObservationContainers = ["Samples", "Events", ConditionContainer];
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// <b><see cref="XmlReaderSettings.IgnoreWhitespace"/> reproduces
/// <see cref="XDocument"/>'s default.</b> <c>XDocument.Load</c>/<c>Parse</c> without
/// <see cref="LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace"/> sets exactly this, so a whitespace-only
/// text node never became an <c>XText</c> and never reached <c>XElement.Value</c>.
/// Leaving it at the reader's own default would silently start folding indentation into
/// observation values that contain element children — <c>"1 2"</c> where the tree read
/// <c>"12"</c>.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// <b>A DTD is prohibited</b> because a streams document is untrusted network input and
/// entity expansion is not a feature this parser has any use for. This too matches what
/// <see cref="XDocument"/> defaulted to.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
private static readonly XmlReaderSettings ReaderSettings = new()
{
IgnoreWhitespace = true,
DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Prohibit,
// The caller owns the stream it handed in; disposing the reader must not close it.
CloseInput = false
};
/// <summary>Parses a <c>/current</c> response, or one <c>/sample</c> chunk, held as a string.</summary>
/// <param name="xml">The raw <c>MTConnectStreams</c> XML document.</param>
@@ -107,19 +152,12 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
"MTConnect streams response was empty; expected an MTConnectStreams XML document.");
}
XDocument document;
try
{
// A chunk lifted out of a multipart frame can carry a byte-order mark or the framing's
// trailing line break; XmlReader rejects either ahead of the XML declaration.
document = XDocument.Parse(xml.Trim('\uFEFF', ' ', '\t', '\r', '\n'));
}
catch (XmlException ex)
{
throw new InvalidDataException($"MTConnect streams response is not well-formed XML: {ex.Message}", ex);
}
// A chunk lifted out of a multipart frame can carry a byte-order mark or the framing's
// trailing line break; XmlReader rejects either ahead of the XML declaration.
using var text = new StringReader(xml.Trim('\uFEFF', ' ', '\t', '\r', '\n'));
using var reader = XmlReader.Create(text, ReaderSettings);
return Build(document);
return Read(reader);
}
/// <summary>
@@ -128,7 +166,7 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
/// <remarks>
/// The <c>/sample</c> hot path used to materialise every chunk twice — once as a decoded
/// string, once again as the trimmed copy handed to the parser — for a document that is read
/// once and thrown away. Parsing from the bytes drops both copies; <see cref="XDocument"/>
/// once and thrown away. Parsing from the bytes drops both copies; <see cref="XmlReader"/>
/// does its own UTF-8 decoding off the stream. The framing tolerance the string overload's
/// <c>Trim</c> provided is preserved by <see cref="TrimFraming"/>, which slices rather than
/// copies.
@@ -156,17 +194,9 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(stream);
XDocument document;
try
{
document = XDocument.Load(stream);
}
catch (XmlException ex)
{
throw new InvalidDataException($"MTConnect streams response is not well-formed XML: {ex.Message}", ex);
}
using var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream, ReaderSettings);
return Build(document);
return Read(reader);
}
/// <summary>
@@ -218,57 +248,172 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
? new MemoryStream(segment.Array, segment.Offset, segment.Count, writable: false)
: new MemoryStream(xml.ToArray(), writable: false);
private static MTConnectStreamsResult Build(XDocument document)
/// <summary>
/// Reads the whole document, translating the reader's own well-formedness complaints into
/// this parser's failure family. A forward-only read raises them wherever it happens to
/// reach the damage rather than all at once up front, so the wrapper spans the entire walk.
/// </summary>
private static MTConnectStreamsResult Read(XmlReader reader)
{
var root = document.Root
?? throw new InvalidDataException("MTConnect streams response has no root element.");
if (!MTConnectXml.IsNamed(root, "MTConnectStreams"))
try
{
throw new InvalidDataException(MTConnectXml.DescribeUnexpectedRoot(root, "MTConnectStreams", Subject));
return ReadDocument(reader);
}
catch (XmlException ex)
{
throw new InvalidDataException($"MTConnect streams response is not well-formed XML: {ex.Message}", ex);
}
var header = MTConnectXml.ChildrenNamed(root, "Header").FirstOrDefault()
?? throw new InvalidDataException(
"MTConnect streams response has no <Header>; without it the sequence bookkeeping the sample pump runs on is unknowable.");
return new MTConnectStreamsResult(
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(header, "instanceId", HeaderOwner, Subject),
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(header, "nextSequence", HeaderOwner, Subject),
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(header, "firstSequence", HeaderOwner, Subject),
ReadObservations(root));
}
/// <summary>
/// Collects every observation in the document, in Agent-supplied order. Containers are found
/// by descending the whole <c>&lt;Streams&gt;</c> subtree rather than by walking a fixed
/// DeviceStream → ComponentStream chain, so a vendor's extra nesting level cannot silently
/// hide a device's observations.
/// </summary>
private static IReadOnlyList<MTConnectObservation> ReadObservations(XElement root)
private static MTConnectStreamsResult ReadDocument(XmlReader reader)
{
var observations = new List<MTConnectObservation>();
foreach (var container in root.Descendants().Where(IsObservationContainer))
while (reader.Read() && reader.NodeType != XmlNodeType.Element)
{
var isCondition = MTConnectXml.IsNamed(container, ConditionContainer);
foreach (var element in container.Elements())
// Skip the XML declaration, comments and processing instructions ahead of the root.
}
if (reader.NodeType != XmlNodeType.Element)
{
throw new InvalidDataException("MTConnect streams response has no root element.");
}
if (!MTConnectXml.IsNamed(reader, "MTConnectStreams"))
{
// The cold path, and the one place a tree is still built: an MTConnectError arrives in
// exactly this shape (Agents serve one under HTTP 200), and its <Error> elements — the
// Agent's own account of what it objected to — are the most useful thing in the whole
// response. Materialising the root is how the shared extraction can reach them.
throw new InvalidDataException(
MTConnectXml.DescribeUnexpectedRoot((XElement)XNode.ReadFrom(reader), "MTConnectStreams", Subject));
}
var observations = new List<MTConnectObservation>();
HeaderSequences? header = null;
if (!reader.IsEmptyElement)
{
while (reader.Read() && reader.NodeType != XmlNodeType.EndElement)
{
observations.Add(ReadObservation(element, isCondition));
if (reader.NodeType != XmlNodeType.Element)
{
continue;
}
// The <Header> is a direct child of the root, and the first one wins — but it is
// still walked like any other element rather than skipped, so a container nested
// inside it yields its observations exactly as the whole-subtree descent did.
if (header is null && MTConnectXml.IsNamed(reader, "Header"))
{
header = ReadHeader(reader);
}
ReadElement(reader, ContainerKind.None, observations, textSink: null);
}
}
return observations;
var sequences = header ?? throw new InvalidDataException(
"MTConnect streams response has no <Header>; without it the sequence bookkeeping the sample pump runs on is unknowable.");
return new MTConnectStreamsResult(
sequences.InstanceId,
sequences.NextSequence,
sequences.FirstSequence,
observations);
}
private static MTConnectObservation ReadObservation(XElement element, bool isCondition)
{
var dataItemId = MTConnectXml.RequiredAttribute(element, "dataItemId", $"Observation <{element.Name.LocalName}>", Subject);
/// <summary>
/// The three sequence numbers the sample pump runs on, read off the <c>&lt;Header&gt;</c>'s
/// start tag. Read eagerly, where the header is met, so an unusable header is still reported
/// ahead of anything the <c>&lt;Streams&gt;</c> that follows it might also be wrong about.
/// </summary>
private static HeaderSequences ReadHeader(XmlReader reader) =>
new(
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(reader, "instanceId", HeaderOwner, Subject),
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(reader, "nextSequence", HeaderOwner, Subject),
MTConnectXml.RequiredLongAttribute(reader, "firstSequence", HeaderOwner, Subject));
return new MTConnectObservation(
dataItemId,
isCondition ? ConditionState(element) : element.Value.Trim(),
ReadTimestampUtc(element, dataItemId),
/// <summary>
/// Consumes the element the reader is positioned on, collecting any observation it is and
/// any the rest of its subtree holds. Every element is descended into — observations are
/// found by their <i>parent</i> being one of the three containers, not by walking a fixed
/// DeviceStream → ComponentStream chain, so a vendor's extra nesting level cannot silently
/// hide a device's observations.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <b>Cursor contract:</b> on return the reader sits on the element's
/// <see cref="XmlNodeType.EndElement"/>, or on the element itself when it was written empty
/// — either way the caller's next <see cref="XmlReader.Read"/> lands on whatever follows.
/// Every recursion below relies on that, which is why the children are walked by hand
/// rather than through <c>Skip</c>/<c>ReadSubtree</c>.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="reader">A reader positioned on the element's start tag.</param>
/// <param name="parent">What the enclosing element is, which decides whether this one is an observation.</param>
/// <param name="observations">Collects the observations found, in document order.</param>
/// <param name="textSink">
/// The text accumulator of the nearest enclosing observation whose value is its text, or
/// <c>null</c> when there is none. Text found anywhere below an observation belongs to it —
/// that is what <c>XElement.Value</c> meant.
/// </param>
private static void ReadElement(
XmlReader reader,
ContainerKind parent,
List<MTConnectObservation> observations,
ValueSink? textSink)
{
var isObservation = parent != ContainerKind.None;
var isCondition = parent == ContainerKind.Condition;
var kind = ContainerKindOf(reader);
var slot = -1;
string? dataItemId = null;
var timestampUtc = default(DateTime);
string? conditionState = null;
if (isObservation)
{
var name = reader.LocalName;
dataItemId = MTConnectXml.RequiredAttribute(reader, "dataItemId", $"Observation <{name}>", Subject);
timestampUtc = ReadTimestampUtc(reader, dataItemId);
conditionState = isCondition ? ConditionState(name) : null;
// The slot is reserved BEFORE the subtree is read, and filled after: an observation is
// only complete once its text and its child-element flag are known, but appending it
// then would report a nested observation ahead of the one enclosing it. The tree walk
// this replaced was document-order, and callers key snapshots off that order.
slot = observations.Count;
observations.Add(null!);
}
// A CONDITION's value is its element NAME, so nothing below it is collected for it — but an
// enclosing observation's text still is, hence the ancestor sink rather than none at all.
var sink = isObservation && !isCondition ? new ValueSink() : textSink;
var hasElements = !reader.IsEmptyElement && ReadChildren(reader, kind, observations, sink);
if (!isObservation)
{
return;
}
string value;
if (isCondition)
{
value = conditionState!;
}
else
{
var raw = sink!.Value;
// An observation nested inside another one contributes its text to the outer one too,
// which is what concatenating every descendant text node amounted to.
textSink?.Append(raw);
value = raw.Trim();
}
observations[slot] = new MTConnectObservation(
dataItemId!,
value,
timestampUtc,
// A DATA_SET/TABLE observation keeps its content in <Entry key="…"> children, so the
// text read above concatenates them into nonsense ("12" for two entries). Flagged here
@@ -276,7 +421,49 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
// MTConnectObservation.IsStructured. Never true for a CONDITION: its value comes from
// the element NAME, so child content cannot corrupt it, and flagging one would throw
// away a perfectly well-determined state.
IsStructured: !isCondition && element.HasElements);
IsStructured: !isCondition && hasElements);
}
/// <summary>
/// Walks a non-empty element's children through its <see cref="XmlNodeType.EndElement"/>,
/// reporting whether any of them was an element.
/// </summary>
private static bool ReadChildren(
XmlReader reader,
ContainerKind kind,
List<MTConnectObservation> observations,
ValueSink? sink)
{
var hasElements = false;
while (reader.Read())
{
switch (reader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element:
hasElements = true;
ReadElement(reader, kind, observations, sink);
break;
// Deliberately not XmlNodeType.Whitespace: ReaderSettings suppresses it, and were it
// ever surfaced it would still not belong in the value — the tree this replaced
// dropped whitespace-only nodes on exactly the same setting.
case XmlNodeType.Text:
case XmlNodeType.CDATA:
case XmlNodeType.SignificantWhitespace:
sink?.Append(reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
return hasElements;
}
}
// Unreachable on any input the reader accepts: running out of document inside an open
// element is a well-formedness error, which the reader raises from Read() itself.
return hasElements;
}
/// <summary>
@@ -285,16 +472,12 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
/// token to recognize; every other state is reported as-named (<c>Normal</c>, <c>Warning</c>,
/// <c>Fault</c>, and any vendor state).
/// </summary>
private static string ConditionState(XElement element)
{
var state = element.Name.LocalName;
private static string ConditionState(string localName) =>
string.Equals(localName, "Unavailable", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? UnavailableSentinel : localName;
return string.Equals(state, "Unavailable", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ? UnavailableSentinel : state;
}
private static DateTime ReadTimestampUtc(XElement element, string dataItemId)
private static DateTime ReadTimestampUtc(XmlReader reader, string dataItemId)
{
var raw = MTConnectXml.RequiredAttribute(element, "timestamp", $"Observation '{dataItemId}'", Subject);
var raw = MTConnectXml.RequiredAttribute(reader, "timestamp", $"Observation '{dataItemId}'", Subject);
if (!DateTime.TryParse(
raw,
@@ -311,7 +494,69 @@ internal static class MTConnectStreamsParser
return DateTime.SpecifyKind(parsed, DateTimeKind.Utc);
}
private static bool IsObservationContainer(XElement element) =>
ObservationContainers.Any(name => MTConnectXml.IsNamed(element, name));
/// <summary>
/// Which of the three observation containers — if any — the element the reader is positioned
/// on is. A ComponentStream may carry any subset of them, including none.
/// </summary>
private static ContainerKind ContainerKindOf(XmlReader reader)
{
if (MTConnectXml.IsNamed(reader, ConditionContainer))
{
return ContainerKind.Condition;
}
return MTConnectXml.IsNamed(reader, "Samples") || MTConnectXml.IsNamed(reader, "Events")
? ContainerKind.Values
: ContainerKind.None;
}
/// <summary>What an element's children are: nothing special, valued observations, or conditions.</summary>
private enum ContainerKind
{
/// <summary>Not an observation container; its element children are just more structure.</summary>
None,
/// <summary><c>&lt;Samples&gt;</c> or <c>&lt;Events&gt;</c> — children take their value from their text.</summary>
Values,
/// <summary><c>&lt;Condition&gt;</c> — children take their value from their element NAME.</summary>
Condition
}
/// <summary>The three sequence numbers read off a <c>&lt;Header&gt;</c>.</summary>
private readonly record struct HeaderSequences(long InstanceId, long NextSequence, long FirstSequence);
/// <summary>
/// Accumulates one observation's text across however many nodes the parser hands it, without
/// a <see cref="StringBuilder"/> for the single-text-node shape every ordinary scalar
/// observation has — which is the shape this parser sees thousands of times a second.
/// </summary>
private sealed class ValueSink
{
private string? _single;
private StringBuilder? _builder;
/// <summary>Everything appended so far, untrimmed — <c>XElement.Value</c>'s concatenation.</summary>
public string Value => _builder?.ToString() ?? _single ?? string.Empty;
public void Append(string text)
{
if (_builder is not null)
{
_builder.Append(text);
return;
}
if (_single is null)
{
_single = text;
return;
}
_builder = new StringBuilder(_single).Append(text);
_single = null;
}
}
}
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
using System.Globalization;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.MTConnect;
@@ -33,6 +34,23 @@ internal static class MTConnectXml
public static bool IsNamed(XElement element, string localName) =>
string.Equals(element.Name.LocalName, localName, StringComparison.Ordinal);
/// <summary>
/// Does the element the reader is positioned on have the given local name, whatever its
/// namespace?
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <see cref="MTConnectStreamsParser"/> reads its documents through a forward-only
/// <see cref="XmlReader"/> rather than a materialised tree — one sample chunk is read once
/// and thrown away, so building an <see cref="XDocument"/> for it is pure waste. The reader
/// overloads here exist so that going forward-only did not fork the two silent rules in the
/// type-level remarks: both flavours match on the local name, read attributes unqualified,
/// and produce the same error text.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="reader">A reader positioned on an element.</param>
/// <param name="localName">The unqualified name to match.</param>
public static bool IsNamed(XmlReader reader, string localName) =>
string.Equals(reader.LocalName, localName, StringComparison.Ordinal);
/// <summary>Direct element children of <paramref name="parent"/> with the given local name.</summary>
/// <param name="parent">The element whose children to filter.</param>
/// <param name="localName">The unqualified name to match.</param>
@@ -52,19 +70,46 @@ internal static class MTConnectXml
return string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value) ? null : value;
}
/// <summary>
/// Reads an unqualified attribute off the element the reader is positioned on, normalizing a
/// present-but-empty value to <c>null</c>. See <see cref="IsNamed(XmlReader, string)"/> for
/// why the reader overloads exist.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <see cref="XmlReader.GetAttribute(string)"/> matches on the attribute's <i>qualified</i>
/// name, so a prefixed <c>x:dataItemId</c> does not answer to <c>dataItemId</c> — exactly
/// what rule 2 in the type-level remarks requires, and what <see cref="XElement.Attribute"/>
/// does for a namespace-free <see cref="XName"/>.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="reader">A reader positioned on an element.</param>
/// <param name="name">The unqualified attribute name.</param>
public static string? OptionalAttribute(XmlReader reader, string name)
{
var value = reader.GetAttribute(name);
return string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value) ? null : value;
}
/// <summary>Reads a required unqualified attribute, or throws naming the owner and the attribute.</summary>
/// <param name="element">The element carrying the attribute.</param>
/// <param name="name">The unqualified attribute name.</param>
/// <param name="owner">How to describe the element in the error message.</param>
/// <param name="subject">How to describe the document in the error message (e.g. "/probe response").</param>
/// <exception cref="InvalidDataException">The attribute is absent or blank.</exception>
public static string RequiredAttribute(XElement element, string name, string owner, string subject)
{
var value = OptionalAttribute(element, name);
public static string RequiredAttribute(XElement element, string name, string owner, string subject) =>
OptionalAttribute(element, name) ?? throw MissingAttribute(name, owner, subject);
return value ?? throw new InvalidDataException(
$"MTConnect {subject} is malformed: {owner} has no '{name}' attribute.");
}
/// <summary>
/// Reads a required unqualified attribute off the element the reader is positioned on, or
/// throws naming the owner and the attribute.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="reader">A reader positioned on an element.</param>
/// <param name="name">The unqualified attribute name.</param>
/// <param name="owner">How to describe the element in the error message.</param>
/// <param name="subject">How to describe the document in the error message.</param>
/// <exception cref="InvalidDataException">The attribute is absent or blank.</exception>
public static string RequiredAttribute(XmlReader reader, string name, string owner, string subject) =>
OptionalAttribute(reader, name) ?? throw MissingAttribute(name, owner, subject);
/// <summary>Reads an optional unqualified attribute as an <see cref="int"/>.</summary>
/// <param name="element">The element carrying the attribute.</param>
@@ -95,10 +140,28 @@ internal static class MTConnectXml
/// <param name="owner">How to describe the element in the error message.</param>
/// <param name="subject">How to describe the document in the error message.</param>
/// <exception cref="InvalidDataException">The attribute is absent, blank, or not an integer.</exception>
public static long RequiredLongAttribute(XElement element, string name, string owner, string subject)
{
var raw = RequiredAttribute(element, name, owner, subject);
public static long RequiredLongAttribute(XElement element, string name, string owner, string subject) =>
AsLong(RequiredAttribute(element, name, owner, subject), name, owner, subject);
/// <summary>
/// Reads a required unqualified attribute off the element the reader is positioned on, as a
/// <see cref="long"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="reader">A reader positioned on an element.</param>
/// <param name="name">The unqualified attribute name.</param>
/// <param name="owner">How to describe the element in the error message.</param>
/// <param name="subject">How to describe the document in the error message.</param>
/// <exception cref="InvalidDataException">The attribute is absent, blank, or not an integer.</exception>
public static long RequiredLongAttribute(XmlReader reader, string name, string owner, string subject) =>
AsLong(RequiredAttribute(reader, name, owner, subject), name, owner, subject);
/// <summary>The one spelling of "that attribute is missing", shared by both flavours.</summary>
private static InvalidDataException MissingAttribute(string name, string owner, string subject) =>
new($"MTConnect {subject} is malformed: {owner} has no '{name}' attribute.");
/// <summary>The one spelling of "that attribute is not a number", shared by both flavours.</summary>
private static long AsLong(string raw, string name, string owner, string subject)
{
if (!long.TryParse(raw, NumberStyles.Integer, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out var value))
{
throw new InvalidDataException(
@@ -1061,6 +1061,30 @@ public sealed class MTConnectStreamsParseTests
observation.DataItemId.ShouldBe("ds");
}
[Fact]
public void The_indentation_between_child_entries_is_not_part_of_the_value()
{
// The parser reads forward-only off an XmlReader, and the value it reports is the
// concatenation of the text it meets on the way. That concatenation only matches what the
// XDocument it replaced reported because whitespace-only text nodes are dropped
// (XmlReaderSettings.IgnoreWhitespace, which is what XDocument.Load defaulted to) — so
// entries separated by a line break must still read "12", never "1\n 2". Nothing else in
// this file can tell the two settings apart: the DATA_SET case above writes its entries
// adjacent, and every other observation is a single text node that Trim() cleans up either
// way. The observation index codes a structured observation BadNotSupported, so the value
// itself is not what matters here — the setting is, and this is the only test that moves
// when it changes.
var result = MTConnectStreamsParser.Parse(StreamsDocument(
"""
<Events><PathFeedrateOverride dataItemId="ds" timestamp="2026-07-24T12:00:00Z" count="2">
<Entry key="V1">1</Entry>
<Entry key="V2">2</Entry>
</PathFeedrateOverride></Events>
"""));
result.Observations.ShouldHaveSingleItem().Value.ShouldBe("12");
}
[Fact]
public void A_plain_text_observation_containing_spaces_is_NOT_flagged_structured()
{