Re: [xml] _private and userdata for nodes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:19:05AM -0600, Hundiak, Arthur wrote:
> Is it safe to assume that the _private variable in the xmlAttr and xmlNode
> structures can be used for application specific data?

  yes. Except for libxslt processing the library won't touch those fields.

> I couldn't find anything specific in the documentation.  Gdome uses this
> pointer for user data.  There was also a discussion back in March concerning
> tree callbacks which referred to _private as an application reserved
> pointer. Xslt makes some use of these variables.

  I never implemented the callbacks :-\ , and XSLT uses those fields yes.
  
> Maybe the comments in tree.h could be changed from "for Cobra, Must be
> first" to "application data".

  Makes sense, done.

Daniel

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