Re: [xml] Reordering of meta tags -- Bug?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Georg Rehm wrote:
[...]
> If I put this XHTML code into a LibXML-object and call toString(), the
> title and the meta tags are swapped:

  No they are not swapped, the encoding meta tag is rewritten when serializing.

> things like
>
>       $elem->hasAttribute("http-equiv")
>
> work, but 
>
>     $elem->setAttributeNS("myNS", "foo", "bar") 
>
> does not have any effect at all. Even removing the node has no effect, 
> because as soon as I call toString(), the node in question magically 
> reappears. Is there any way to bypass this behaviour or to actually 
> delete this node?

  The node is (re-)created because your are serializing XHTML-1.0 and 
in accordance to the XHTML-1.0 spec rules for serialization.
If you don't want this (and other serialization specific serialization
rules) to occur remove the DOCTYPE indicating it's an XHTML-1.0 document.
That's the only way.

Daniel

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