"Re: [xml] assigning attribute value without using"

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

on 3/29/2004 1:05 PM Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:04:18PM +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is it sane to use "xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)attr, 
>>xmlNewDocText(attr->doc, BAD_CAST "&ent1;")" instead of 
>>"xmlNodeSetContent" if assigning a value to an attribute node?
>>
>>The intention is to reflect the DOM Attr.value method:
>>"On setting, this creates a Text node with the unparsed contents of the 
>>string, i.e. any characters that an XML processor would recognize as 
>>markup are instead treated as literal text."
>>
>>I tried serialization and it worked fine.
>>
>>Does anyone see any side effects?
> 
> 
>   That should work, assuming attr->children == NULL, otherwise unlink the
> children node list and free it.

Puuuh, good to hear, I already thought that I have to go "w3c 
not-conform" here.


Thanks,

Kasimier