Re: [gdome]DTD loading

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:40:30PM +0200, Luca Padovani wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:48, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Hum, there isn't really a concept of "document fragment" in libxml2
> > at least no such node is ever generated. 
> 
> however libxml2 provides this method:
> 
>   xmlNodePtr  xmlNewDocFragment(xmlDocPtr doc);
> 
> so it _can_ generate a document fragment. I believe that to have a

  Okay, the XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE was defined while looking at the DOM
spec but no known code (except gdome apparently) ever produced such nodes.

> correct cloning in libxml2 it is just a matter of moving 
> 
>   case XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE:
> 
> in xmlStaticCopyNode a few lines up (say just below XML_ELEMENT_NODE). A
> document fragment node is just a "node" which has a different semantics
> when inserted in a document, but that has nothing to do with cloning, so
> I believe the patch is really simple. Please correct me if I'm missing
> something.

  Yeah, should work for this. Well I didn;t know anybody used
the node type, I hope the rest of the code base don't have too
many problems with it,

Daniel

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