Re: [xml] xmlValidateOneElement - will fill-in defaults yes?

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

> > So, if I add a node (eg "test" in netperf DTD entity names FWIW) and if 
> > I call xmlValidateOneElement() against that node, will all the defaults 
> > from the DTD get filled-in automagically?
>
>
>   Hum, no. Validation will not change the document, if it was doing that
> I would get killed immediatly by angry users...

My mistake - merging too much into a validated parsing and forgetting it 
was more the parsing than the validating.

>   I don't think we have at the tree level a way to automatically add
> defaulted attributes, this is something usually done at parsing time.
>   You may be interested in
>     http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidGetPotentialChildren
>   and 
>     http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidGetValidElements
>
>  to get the list of defaulted attributes and their value
>     http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#xmlGetDtdQElementDesc
> and then walk the xmlAttributePtr attributes list and check defaultValue.

I will look into that.

> > ultimately, I'll want to do something similar involving a GTK gui but 
> > one step at a time...
>
>
>   you could look at MlView for inspiration ...
>    http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/
> but honnestly a generic editor is a daunting task, believe me !

It certainly seems that way :)  I _can_ count on requiring someone to 
make suitable mods to a DTD if they extend my netperf markup language 
(as it were) so I guess that helps a little.

rick jones