@nowline/export-msproj 0.8.5 → 0.9.0

package/src/index.ts

@@ -3,12 +3,21 @@
 //
 // Spec: specs/handoffs/m2c.md § 8.
 // Decisions:
-//   - Resolution 6: Standard calendar block (Mon–Fri, 8h, fixed UIDs 1/2).
+//   - Resolution 6: Standard calendar block (8h days, fixed UIDs 1/2). Its
+//     working weekdays and every task Duration come from engine C
+//     (`scheduleRoadmap`) under the file's calendar, so they match the chart
+//     (specs/working-calendar.md §8).
 //   - Resolution 9: single stderr summary line on lossy drops; never an error.
 //   - Lossy export policy: `--strict` does not escalate.
+//   - Waves (specs/waves.md §10): one wave-end milestone task per wave,
+//     appended after every other task so existing UIDs never renumber.
+//   - Lane sequencing: each node links finish-to-start to the node before
+//     it in its lane or group, so MS Project's forward pass starts every
+//     task on engine C's day (specs/rendering.md § MS Project XML Export).
 //
 // Determinism: no `new Date()`. Anchoring date comes from `options.startDate`
-// or `inputs.today`; calendar UIDs are fixed; Tasks numbered sequentially.
+// or the schedule's start (the roadmap's `start:`, else `inputs.today`);
+// calendar UIDs are fixed; Tasks numbered sequentially.
 
 import type {
     AnchorDeclaration,
@@ -22,22 +31,24 @@ import type {
     SwimlaneContent,
     SwimlaneDeclaration,
     TeamDeclaration,
+    WavePlan,
 } from '@nowline/core';
+import { ISO_DATE_RE } from '@nowline/core/internal';
 import type { ExportInputs } from '@nowline/export-core';
 import { displayLabel, getProp, getProps, hasProp, roadmapTitle } from '@nowline/export-core';
+import { calendarExceptions, type RoadmapSchedule, scheduleRoadmap } from '@nowline/layout';
 
 import { buildCalendarsBlock, STANDARD_RESOURCE_CALENDAR_UID } from './calendar.js';
-import { durationToMsProjMinutes, minutesToMsProjDuration } from './duration.js';
-import { escapeXml, tag } from './xml.js';
+import { minutesToMsProjDuration, workingDaysToMinutes } from './duration.js';
+import { escapeXml, singleLine, tag } from './xml.js';
 
 export interface MsProjOptions {
     /** Project name attribute. Defaults to roadmap title. */
     projectName?: string;
     /**
-     * Anchor date (YYYY-MM-DD). MS Project needs absolute Start dates;
-     * relative-only Nowline roadmaps anchor every task here. Falls back to
-     * `inputs.today` (UTC midnight) if absent; and if that is also absent,
-     * to `2026-01-05` (a deterministic Monday) so tests are stable.
+     * Project start date (YYYY-MM-DD) written to `<StartDate>`. Defaults to
+     * the schedule's start, the same anchor every task date uses: the
+     * roadmap's `start:`, else `inputs.today` (UTC midnight).
      *
      * Documented as not round-trippable.
      */
@@ -54,6 +65,10 @@ interface DropCounts {
     progress: number;
     before: number;
     description: number;
+    /** Wave members without an id: no link to their wave-end task. */
+    waveNoId: number;
+    /** Inline-date wave floors: MS Project links tasks, not dates. */
+    waveFloor: number;
 }
 
 interface TaskRow {
@@ -68,6 +83,12 @@ interface TaskRow {
     nowlineId?: string;
     ownerRefs: string[];
     startsAt?: string;
+    /** The source item, for wave membership. */
+    node?: ItemDeclaration;
+    /** The previous node in the lane or group: its task, or every track end of a parallel. */
+    chainUids: number[];
+    /** Links by UID, added after `chainUids`, skipping UIDs already linked. */
+    extraPredecessorUids?: number[];
 }
 
 interface ResourceRow {
@@ -77,6 +98,17 @@ interface ResourceRow {
     nowlineId?: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * UID and ID counters for the task walk, plus each named parallel's track
+ * ends: the UID of every track's task (an item, or a group's summary task),
+ * which `after:<parallel>` links to.
+ */
+interface WalkCtx {
+    uid: number;
+    id: number;
+    parallelEnds: Map<string, number[]>;
+}
+
 const PROJECT_XMLNS = 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/project';
 
 export function exportMsProjXml(inputs: ExportInputs, options: MsProjOptions = {}): string {
@@ -89,24 +121,33 @@ export function exportMsProjXml(inputs: ExportInputs, options: MsProjOptions = {
         progress: 0,
         before: 0,
         description: 0,
+        waveNoId: 0,
+        waveFloor: 0,
     };
 
     const projectName = escapeXml(
         options.projectName ?? roadmapTitle(ast.roadmapDecl ?? undefined),
     );
-    const startDate = resolveStartDate(options.startDate, inputs.today);
+    const schedule =
+        inputs.schedule ?? scheduleRoadmap(ast, inputs.resolved, { today: inputs.today });
+    const startDate = resolveStartDate(options.startDate, schedule.startDate);
 
     // Resources
     const resources = collectResources(ast);
 
     // Tasks (walk roadmap entries in source order)
-    const tasks = collectTasks(ast, drops, startDate);
+    const { tasks, parallelEnds } = collectTasks(ast, drops, schedule);
 
     // Predecessor lookup uses Nowline ids → task UIDs.
     const idToUid = new Map<string, number>();
     for (const t of tasks) {
         if (t.nowlineId) idToUid.set(t.nowlineId, t.uid);
     }
+    // Undefined when the roadmap declares no waves: nothing below changes.
+    const wavePlan = schedule.plan;
+    if (wavePlan) {
+        addWaveTasks(ast, wavePlan, tasks, idToUid, drops);
+    }
     const idToUidResource = new Map<string, number>();
     for (const r of resources) {
         if (r.nowlineId) idToUidResource.set(r.nowlineId, r.uid);
@@ -121,12 +162,19 @@ export function exportMsProjXml(inputs: ExportInputs, options: MsProjOptions = {
     lines.push(`  <StartDate>${startDate}T08:00:00</StartDate>`);
     lines.push('  <ScheduleFromStart>1</ScheduleFromStart>');
     lines.push('  <CalendarUID>1</CalendarUID>');
-    lines.push(buildCalendarsBlock());
+    const { working } = schedule.calendar;
+    const { startDate: windowStart, endDate: windowEnd } = inputs.model.timeline;
+    lines.push(
+        buildCalendarsBlock(
+            working.workingWeekdays,
+            calendarExceptions(working, windowStart, windowEnd),
+        ),
+    );
 
     // Tasks block
     lines.push('  <Tasks>');
     for (const t of tasks) {
-        emitTask(t, idToUid, lines);
+        emitTask(t, idToUid, parallelEnds, lines);
     }
     lines.push('  </Tasks>');
 
@@ -163,9 +211,13 @@ export function exportMsProjXml(inputs: ExportInputs, options: MsProjOptions = {
 
 // ---------- Tasks ----------
 
-function collectTasks(ast: NowlineFile, drops: DropCounts, startDate: string): TaskRow[] {
+function collectTasks(
+    ast: NowlineFile,
+    drops: DropCounts,
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): { tasks: TaskRow[]; parallelEnds: Map<string, number[]> } {
     const tasks: TaskRow[] = [];
-    const ctx = { uid: 1, id: 1 };
+    const ctx: WalkCtx = { uid: 1, id: 1, parallelEnds: new Map() };
 
     for (const entry of ast.roadmapEntries) {
         if (entry.$type === 'SwimlaneDeclaration') {
@@ -180,12 +232,12 @@ function collectTasks(ast: NowlineFile, drops: DropCounts, startDate: string): T
                 isMilestone: false,
                 durationMinutes: 0,
                 predecessors: [],
+                chainUids: [],
                 nowlineId: lane.name,
                 ownerRefs: getProps(lane, 'owner') as string[],
             });
-            for (const child of lane.content) {
-                walkSwimlaneChild(child, 2, ctx, drops, tasks, startDate);
-            }
+            // A lane's first node links to nothing: it starts on the project start.
+            walkSequence(lane.content, [], 2, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule);
             // Summary spans all child rows — implicit in MSProject by id ranges,
             // but we don't bother computing FinishDate / actuals.
             void summaryUid;
@@ -200,6 +252,7 @@ function collectTasks(ast: NowlineFile, drops: DropCounts, startDate: string): T
                 isMilestone: true,
                 durationMinutes: 0,
                 predecessors: getProps(m, 'after') as string[],
+                chainUids: [],
                 nowlineId: m.name,
                 ownerRefs: [],
                 startsAt: getProp(m, 'date'),
@@ -216,124 +269,157 @@ function collectTasks(ast: NowlineFile, drops: DropCounts, startDate: string): T
                 isMilestone: true, // Anchors → milestones in MS Project
                 durationMinutes: 0,
                 predecessors: [],
+                chainUids: [],
                 nowlineId: a.name,
                 ownerRefs: [],
                 startsAt: getProp(a, 'date'),
             });
         }
     }
-    return tasks;
+    return { tasks, parallelEnds: ctx.parallelEnds };
 }
 
-function walkSwimlaneChild(
-    child: SwimlaneContent,
+/**
+ * Engine C's sequential rule (`walkLane` in schedule.ts): each node starts
+ * after the one before it. `entry` is what the first node links to; each
+ * node's ends become the next node's entry. Returns the last node's ends.
+ */
+function walkSequence(
+    children: readonly (SwimlaneContent | GroupContent)[],
+    entry: number[],
     outline: number,
-    ctx: { uid: number; id: number },
+    ctx: WalkCtx,
     drops: DropCounts,
     tasks: TaskRow[],
-    startDate: string,
-): void {
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): number[] {
+    let prev = entry;
+    for (const child of children) {
+        prev = walkNode(child, prev, [], outline, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule);
+    }
+    return prev;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Writes one lane or group child and returns the UIDs that end it. `entry`
+ * links to the previous node; `inheritedAfter` is a parallel's own `after:`,
+ * which each of its tracks carries since the parallel has no task.
+ */
+function walkNode(
+    child: SwimlaneContent | GroupContent,
+    entry: number[],
+    inheritedAfter: string[],
+    outline: number,
+    ctx: WalkCtx,
+    drops: DropCounts,
+    tasks: TaskRow[],
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): number[] {
     if (child.$type === 'ItemDeclaration') {
-        emitTaskRow(child, outline, ctx, drops, tasks);
-    } else if (child.$type === 'GroupBlock') {
-        const group = child as GroupBlock;
-        tasks.push({
-            uid: ctx.uid++,
-            id: ctx.id++,
-            name: displayLabel(group),
-            outlineLevel: outline,
-            isSummary: true,
-            isMilestone: false,
-            durationMinutes: 0,
-            predecessors: [],
-            nowlineId: group.name,
-            ownerRefs: [],
-        });
-        for (const grandchild of group.content as GroupContent[]) {
-            walkGroupChild(grandchild, outline + 1, ctx, drops, tasks, startDate);
-        }
-    } else if (child.$type === 'ParallelBlock') {
-        const parallel = child as ParallelBlock;
-        for (const grandchild of parallel.content) {
-            if (grandchild.$type === 'ItemDeclaration') {
-                emitTaskRow(grandchild, outline, ctx, drops, tasks);
-            } else if (grandchild.$type === 'GroupBlock') {
-                walkSwimlaneChild(
-                    grandchild as unknown as SwimlaneContent,
-                    outline,
-                    ctx,
-                    drops,
-                    tasks,
-                    startDate,
-                );
-            }
-        }
-    } else if (child.$type === 'DescriptionDirective') {
+        return [emitTaskRow(child, entry, inheritedAfter, outline, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule)];
+    }
+    if (child.$type === 'GroupBlock') {
+        return [emitGroup(child, entry, inheritedAfter, outline, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule)];
+    }
+    if (child.$type === 'ParallelBlock') {
+        return walkParallel(child, entry, outline, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule);
+    }
+    if (child.$type === 'DescriptionDirective') {
         drops.description += 1;
     }
+    return entry;
 }
 
-function walkGroupChild(
-    child: GroupContent,
+/**
+ * A group is a summary task over its children, one outline level down. Its
+ * entry link and its `after:` go on the summary task: MS Project starts no
+ * subtask before its summary task's predecessors finish, so the first child
+ * needs no link of its own. Returns the summary task's UID, which MS Project
+ * finishes with the group's last child.
+ */
+function emitGroup(
+    group: GroupBlock,
+    entry: number[],
+    inheritedAfter: string[],
     outline: number,
-    ctx: { uid: number; id: number },
+    ctx: WalkCtx,
     drops: DropCounts,
     tasks: TaskRow[],
-    startDate: string,
-): void {
-    if (child.$type === 'ItemDeclaration') {
-        emitTaskRow(child, outline, ctx, drops, tasks);
-    } else if (child.$type === 'GroupBlock') {
-        const group = child as GroupBlock;
-        tasks.push({
-            uid: ctx.uid++,
-            id: ctx.id++,
-            name: displayLabel(group),
-            outlineLevel: outline,
-            isSummary: true,
-            isMilestone: false,
-            durationMinutes: 0,
-            predecessors: [],
-            nowlineId: group.name,
-            ownerRefs: [],
-        });
-        for (const grandchild of group.content as GroupContent[]) {
-            walkGroupChild(grandchild, outline + 1, ctx, drops, tasks, startDate);
-        }
-    } else if (child.$type === 'ParallelBlock') {
-        const parallel = child as ParallelBlock;
-        for (const grandchild of parallel.content) {
-            if (grandchild.$type === 'ItemDeclaration') {
-                emitTaskRow(grandchild, outline, ctx, drops, tasks);
-            }
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): number {
+    const uid = ctx.uid++;
+    tasks.push({
+        uid,
+        id: ctx.id++,
+        name: displayLabel(group),
+        outlineLevel: outline,
+        isSummary: true,
+        isMilestone: false,
+        durationMinutes: 0,
+        predecessors: [...(getProps(group, 'after') as string[]), ...inheritedAfter],
+        chainUids: entry,
+        nowlineId: group.name,
+        ownerRefs: [],
+    });
+    walkSequence(group.content, [], outline + 1, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule);
+    return uid;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A parallel has no task: its tracks sit at its own outline level, and each
+ * track's task (an item, or a group's summary task) takes the links the
+ * parallel would have had, its entry and its `after:`. Engine C ends a
+ * parallel at its latest track end, so the next node in the lane and
+ * `after:<parallel>` link to every track's task and MS Project starts the
+ * successor at the latest of them. Returns those track ends.
+ */
+function walkParallel(
+    parallel: ParallelBlock,
+    entry: number[],
+    outline: number,
+    ctx: WalkCtx,
+    drops: DropCounts,
+    tasks: TaskRow[],
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): number[] {
+    const after = getProps(parallel, 'after') as string[];
+    const ends: number[] = [];
+    for (const track of parallel.content) {
+        if (track.$type === 'ItemDeclaration' || track.$type === 'GroupBlock') {
+            ends.push(...walkNode(track, entry, after, outline, ctx, drops, tasks, schedule));
         }
-    } else if (child.$type === 'DescriptionDirective') {
-        drops.description += 1;
     }
+    if (parallel.name) ctx.parallelEnds.set(parallel.name, ends);
+    return ends.length > 0 ? ends : entry;
 }
 
 function emitTaskRow(
     item: ItemDeclaration,
+    entry: number[],
+    inheritedAfter: string[],
     outline: number,
-    ctx: { uid: number; id: number },
+    ctx: WalkCtx,
     drops: DropCounts,
     tasks: TaskRow[],
-): void {
+    schedule: RoadmapSchedule,
+): number {
     countDrops(item, drops);
+    const uid = ctx.uid++;
     tasks.push({
-        uid: ctx.uid++,
+        uid,
         id: ctx.id++,
         name: displayLabel(item),
         outlineLevel: outline,
         isSummary: false,
         isMilestone: false,
-        durationMinutes: durationToMsProjMinutes(
-            getProp(item, 'duration') ?? getProp(item, 'size'),
-        ),
-        predecessors: getProps(item, 'after') as string[],
+        durationMinutes: workingDaysToMinutes(schedule.byNode.get(item)?.days),
+        predecessors: [...(getProps(item, 'after') as string[]), ...inheritedAfter],
+        chainUids: entry,
         nowlineId: item.name,
         ownerRefs: getProps(item, 'owner') as string[],
+        node: item,
     });
+    return uid;
 }
 
 function countDrops(item: ItemDeclaration, drops: DropCounts): void {
@@ -344,11 +430,16 @@ function countDrops(item: ItemDeclaration, drops: DropCounts): void {
     if (item.description) drops.description += 1;
 }
 
-function emitTask(t: TaskRow, idToUid: Map<string, number>, lines: string[]): void {
+function emitTask(
+    t: TaskRow,
+    idToUid: Map<string, number>,
+    parallelEnds: Map<string, number[]>,
+    lines: string[],
+): void {
     lines.push('    <Task>');
     lines.push(`      ${tag('UID', t.uid)}`);
     lines.push(`      ${tag('ID', t.id)}`);
-    lines.push(`      ${tag('Name', t.name)}`);
+    lines.push(`      ${tag('Name', singleLine(t.name))}`);
     if (t.isSummary) lines.push(`      <Summary>1</Summary>`);
     if (t.isMilestone) {
         lines.push('      <Milestone>1</Milestone>');
@@ -360,18 +451,112 @@ function emitTask(t: TaskRow, idToUid: Map<string, number>, lines: string[]): vo
     if (t.startsAt) {
         lines.push(`      <Start>${t.startsAt}T08:00:00</Start>`);
     }
+    const linked = new Set<number>();
     for (const pred of t.predecessors) {
         const uid = idToUid.get(pred);
-        if (uid !== undefined) {
-            lines.push('      <PredecessorLink>');
-            lines.push(`        ${tag('PredecessorUID', uid)}`);
-            lines.push('        <Type>1</Type>'); // FS
-            lines.push('      </PredecessorLink>');
+        // A parallel has no task of its own: link to each track's end.
+        for (const end of uid !== undefined ? [uid] : (parallelEnds.get(pred) ?? [])) {
+            if (linked.has(end)) continue;
+            emitPredecessorLink(end, lines);
+            linked.add(end);
         }
     }
+    for (const uid of [...t.chainUids, ...(t.extraPredecessorUids ?? [])]) {
+        if (linked.has(uid)) continue;
+        emitPredecessorLink(uid, lines);
+        linked.add(uid);
+    }
     lines.push('    </Task>');
 }
 
+function emitPredecessorLink(uid: number, lines: string[]): void {
+    lines.push('      <PredecessorLink>');
+    lines.push(`        ${tag('PredecessorUID', uid)}`);
+    lines.push('        <Type>1</Type>'); // FS
+    lines.push('      </PredecessorLink>');
+}
+
+// ---------- Waves ----------
+
+/**
+ * Waves (specs/waves.md §10). Appends one zero-duration milestone task per
+ * wave, `{title} (wave end)`, after every other task (so existing UIDs and
+ * IDs never renumber), and wires the barrier as FS links:
+ *   - wave-end task k <- every member of wave k with an id, and wave k-1's end;
+ *   - every member of wave k >= 2 <- wave k-1's end task;
+ *   - a floor (`after:` on the wave naming an anchor or a dated milestone)
+ *     <- every member of wave k and wave k's end task (the end task covers an
+ *     empty wave); an inline-date floor is dropped and counted.
+ * Wave ids join `idToUid`, so `after:<wave>` links to the wave-end task.
+ * Background work gets nothing.
+ */
+function addWaveTasks(
+    ast: NowlineFile,
+    plan: WavePlan,
+    tasks: TaskRow[],
+    idToUid: Map<string, number>,
+    drops: DropCounts,
+): void {
+    const datedTargets = new Set<string>();
+    for (const entry of ast.roadmapEntries) {
+        if (entry.$type === 'AnchorDeclaration') {
+            const a = entry as AnchorDeclaration;
+            if (a.name) datedTargets.add(a.name);
+        } else if (entry.$type === 'MilestoneDeclaration') {
+            const m = entry as MilestoneDeclaration;
+            if (m.name && getProp(m, 'date') !== undefined) datedTargets.add(m.name);
+        }
+    }
+
+    const last = tasks[tasks.length - 1];
+    let uid = (last?.uid ?? 0) + 1;
+    let id = (last?.id ?? 0) + 1;
+    const endUids = plan.waves.map(() => uid++);
+
+    const floorUids = plan.waves.map((wave) => {
+        const out: number[] = [];
+        for (const ref of getProps(wave, 'after') as string[]) {
+            if (ISO_DATE_RE.test(ref)) {
+                drops.waveFloor += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+            const target = datedTargets.has(ref) ? idToUid.get(ref) : undefined;
+            if (target !== undefined) out.push(target);
+        }
+        return out;
+    });
+
+    const memberUids: number[][] = plan.waves.map(() => []);
+    for (const t of tasks) {
+        const k = t.node ? plan.memberWave(t.node) : undefined;
+        if (k === undefined) continue;
+        const extra = [...floorUids[k - 1]];
+        if (k >= 2) extra.unshift(endUids[k - 2]);
+        if (extra.length > 0) t.extraPredecessorUids = extra;
+        if (t.nowlineId) memberUids[k - 1].push(t.uid);
+        else drops.waveNoId += 1;
+    }
+
+    plan.waves.forEach((wave, i) => {
+        const preds = [...memberUids[i], ...floorUids[i]];
+        if (i > 0) preds.push(endUids[i - 1]);
+        tasks.push({
+            uid: endUids[i],
+            id: id++,
+            name: `${displayLabel(wave)} (wave end)`,
+            outlineLevel: 1,
+            isSummary: false,
+            isMilestone: true,
+            durationMinutes: 0,
+            predecessors: [],
+            chainUids: [],
+            ownerRefs: [],
+            extraPredecessorUids: preds,
+        });
+        if (wave.name && !idToUid.has(wave.name)) idToUid.set(wave.name, endUids[i]);
+    });
+}
+
 // ---------- Resources ----------
 
 function collectResources(ast: NowlineFile): ResourceRow[] {
@@ -415,7 +600,7 @@ function emitResource(r: ResourceRow, lines: string[]): void {
     lines.push('    <Resource>');
     lines.push(`      ${tag('UID', r.uid)}`);
     lines.push(`      ${tag('ID', r.id)}`);
-    lines.push(`      ${tag('Name', r.name)}`);
+    lines.push(`      ${tag('Name', singleLine(r.name))}`);
     lines.push(`      <CalendarUID>${STANDARD_RESOURCE_CALENDAR_UID}</CalendarUID>`);
     lines.push('    </Resource>');
 }
@@ -461,23 +646,28 @@ function formatDrops(drops: DropCounts): string | null {
         'progress',
         'before',
         'description',
+        'waveNoId',
+        'waveFloor',
     ];
-    const parts = order.filter((k) => drops[k] > 0).map((k) => `${k} (${drops[k]})`);
+    const parts = order.filter((k) => drops[k] > 0).map((k) => `${formatDropKey(k)} (${drops[k]})`);
     if (parts.length === 0) return null;
     return `nowline: msproj export dropped ${parts.length} feature kinds: ${parts.join(', ')}`;
 }
 
+function formatDropKey(key: keyof DropCounts): string {
+    if (key === 'waveNoId') return 'wave-member-no-id';
+    if (key === 'waveFloor') return 'wave-floor';
+    return key;
+}
+
 // ---------- helpers ----------
 
-function resolveStartDate(option: string | undefined, today: Date | undefined): string {
+function resolveStartDate(option: string | undefined, scheduleStart: Date): string {
     if (option) {
-        if (!/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/.test(option)) {
+        if (!ISO_DATE_RE.test(option)) {
             throw new Error(`invalid msproj startDate "${option}": expected YYYY-MM-DD`);
         }
         return option;
     }
-    if (today) {
-        return today.toISOString().slice(0, 10);
-    }
-    return '2026-01-05'; // a deterministic Monday for tests
+    return scheduleStart.toISOString().slice(0, 10);
 }

package/src/xml.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ export function escapeXml(value: string): string {
         .replace(/'/g, ''');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Collapse explicit line breaks (a `\n` in an item title) to a single
+ * space. MS Project task and resource names are single-line fields, so a
+ * raw line feed in `<Name>` would import as a stray control character
+ * instead of a break; a space keeps the words apart.
+ */
+export function singleLine(value: string): string {
+    return /[\r\n]/.test(value) ? value.replace(/\s*[\r\n]+\s*/g, ' ').trim() : value;
+}
+
 export function tag(name: string, value: string | number | boolean): string {
     return `<${name}>${escapeXml(String(value))}</${name}>`;
 }