Re: [xml] xmlCopyNode & xmlDocCopyNode

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:41:23AM +0200, Oliver Feige wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> when I use xmlCopyNode or xmlDocCopyNode then the new node has no
> Attributes!! Only when I do it recursive!!
>
> node = xmlCopyNode(cur, 0); // No Attributes in node
>
> is this a Bug?? I think a Attribute carried by a Node should be copied
> to!!

  Well, this is not a bug. In the DOM model attributes are nodes too.
So a recursive copy includes them while a non-recursive copy doesn't.
Since it's a relatively old API I don't feel like changing the semantic
now for example I think libxslt relies on this behaviour. The same
applies to namespace declarations on a node. You can add them at your
level by using:

    if (node->nsDef != NULL)
        ret->nsDef = xmlCopyNamespaceList(node->nsDef);
    if (node->properties != NULL)
        ret->properties = xmlCopyPropList(ret, node->properties);

Daniel

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