Re: [xml] Re: Access Violation

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:17:00PM +0100, Vincent Finn wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > Is there anything here that looks wrong to anyone?
> >
> >
> >   accessing ->content without checking the type of the node first
> > is 100% wrong. You're making assumption which is very likely to be false.
>
> In my case it won't ever be false.
> Unless I have misunderstood content is for getting the text from a text 
> node, in which case I would have thought what I am doing is fine

  Well you're asking, giving only a code subset, and pointed out something
which looked obvious to me. If you know better, perfect !

> Is using content inherently unsafe?

  Without checking the node type first, yes. Otherwise it's on a case
by case basis depending on the node type.

Daniel

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