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Re: [xml] Minor: What's `autark' when it's at home?



Nix wrote:
> The documentation for xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode() states that it ensures `the
> removed branch [is] autark wrt ns-references.'
>
> The only hits for `autark' in Google are in this code, so normally I'd
> suspect that a search-and-replace run has transformed something else
> into autarky: but in this case it was added at the same time as the
> function, in r3123 by Kasimier Buchcik.
>
> Does anyone have a clue what `autark' actually means? (In context, I'd
> expect `up to date' or `not obsolete' or perhaps `consistent'?)

See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/autarky - in this context, he
basically means "self-sufficient", i.e. namespaces are included on the
node itself.




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