Re: [xml] xmlAddChild() vs. xmlAddChildList()

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:16:30PM +0000, Roelant Ossewaarde wrote:
> Suppose I have a number of children-nodes attached to a parent. Suppose I take one of these children-nodes 
> and add it to another parent. I would expect the behaviour of xmlAddChild() and xmlAddChildList() to differ 
> in this respect, such that xmlAddChild ONLY adds this particular child, and xmlAddChildList adds this 
> particular child and all other nodes attached to this child via 'next'. 
[...]
> Is my understanding of the difference between AddChild() and AddChildList() wrong, or not? Bug or feature?

  Basically, xmlAddChild expects an unlinked node, i.e. all the
prev, next, parent links to be NULL. The simplest way to achieve that
if the node isn't a new one is to call xmlUnlinkNode() . But you're 
right that the problem you expose should be fixed anyway, could you
add it to bugzilla so I don't forget this,

  thanks from a sunny Dublin,

Daniel

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