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

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> 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.

Sorry, I still don't understand. If I do
  element.add_entity_reference(someentity);
1. what is difficult about adding "&someentity;" as an extra child text
node?
2. Should it ever be anything other than "&someentity;"?

Murray Cumming
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