Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] Status

[Stefan Seefeld <seefeld sympatico ca>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> > My point was that, while lacking a lot of features, libxml++ before my
> > initial patch was consistent in the way it worked. My patch changed the 
> > perspective of what an xmlpp::Node actually is (for example),
>
>
> No patch should introduce regressions. 
>
> Could you explain more? I thought you just changed the implementation
> without changing the API?

yes and no. The API didn't change, but semantics did. With my patch
the document (a libxml2 antity) is the owner of all xmlpp::Nodes (incl.
Attributes), so we must not allow anybody to create any of these objects
directly.

The Node constructor/destructors are called by libxml2 when the 
corresponding xmlNode, xmlAttr, etc. objects are created/destroyed,
meaning the implementation (xmlNode) owns its own wrapper (xmlpp::Node).

> > all we need to do is branch from the version just before the patch, and 
> > declare that branch to be the 'stable 1.0' branch. No need to reapply
> > anything.
>
>
> I liked your patch.

Ok. Then please consider the SaxParser API change, and possibly others
that make public construction of xmlpp::Nodes (, Attributes, ...)
impossible.

Stefan