RE: [libxml++] Rename Element::add_content() to add_text_content?

[Dan Dennedy <dan dennedy org>]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 10:28, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > We don't have Element::add_entity_reference() I think.
> > > 
> > > If needed please provide a patch.
> > 
> > Heh, wow, this makes me wonder if we have been following each 
> > others' discussions at all! :-)  Most of my discussion in 
> > this matter have been with murraryc and Daniel Veillard, so I 
> > do not intend to critisize you.
> > add_entity_reference() is what I have been wanting to have 
> > for some time. However, it is quite difficult to implement, 
> > not directly available through libxml2, and we would have to 
> > pull code from libxml2, or submit patches to libxml2 to 
> > expose some facilities it uses internally.
> 
> That's new to me. I would have expected that to be simple. After all, I
> think that an entity reference is just something between & and ; characters.
> Whether it is a resolvable entity reference is, of course, more complex.

Nope, that is encoded at &whatever;. The DOM *parser* can attempt to
resolve entity references, but a dom builder must be able to add the
appropriate nodes to the tree.