Re: [xml] Use of xmlValidate* functions in tree

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:08:42PM -0400, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
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> When manipulating libxml2's tree, when is it required to call the
> xmlValidate*() functions? I did some testing, and it seems that libxml2
> will happily create attributes or elements that do not conform to the
> lexical space of Name, etc. When the tree is serialized the XML is
> invalid, but libxml2 doesn't explode or anything like that.
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> Also, I'm curious to know where lies the burden for checking the
> validity of these things. Is the client code expected to check? If so,

  yes.

> is there a "safe" wrapper that will automatically do the checks? I

  Hum, no ... just call xmlValidateName before the normal tree API call.

Daniel

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