Re: [xml] xmlUnlinkProp, xmlAddProp

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:35:16PM +0100, Petr Kozelka wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> another two things that would help me implement the standalone DOM attribute wrapper:
>
> - xmlUnlinkProp(xmlAttrPtr): a function that unlinks an attribute from the tree, without destroying it; 
> (perhaps this would fit well
> into the
> existing xmlUnlinkNode?)
> - xmlAddProp(xmlNodePtr, xmlAttrPtr): function that adds an existing attribute node to the specified 
> element (should this be part of
> xmlAddChild?)

  Hum, ... right !

> Again, I didn't find this functionality in any existing API, hopefully I didn't miss it somewhere
> My time is over for today, but if you are interrested I will create and send you patches tomorow; please 
> tell me the preferred
> alternatives.

  Adding them within xmlUnlinkNode and xmlAddChild seems the best
sine adding new APIs is a problem ATM, and that would be a coherent use of the
API. Adding the capabilities to xmlAddFirstChild/xmlAddLastChild would make
some sense too (though attributes are not supposed to be ordered, but ...)

  TIA,

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Veillard      | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/
veillard redhat com  | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/