Re: [xml] XML_XINCLUDE_START/END nodes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:36:59PM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 12:05, Rob Richards wrote:
> > What is the purpose of these nodes other than to marking the beginning
> > and end of xincluded documents?
> >  
> > I have a dom implementation which after passing the document through
> > an xinclude process, contains these nodes. Looking through the dom and
> > xinclude specs, I couldnt find any reference to these nodes, so can
> > these just be removed from the tree after the xinclude processing or
> > do they provide some additional functionality which would need to be
> > handled in the dom implementation?
>
> After you have created your tree and done any validation you require,
> you can ignore those nodes.
>
> It would be inconvenient to automatically drop them from any created
> tree, since I have more than once come across situations that need to
> know when they are leaving the main document and entering some XIncluded
> content.

  Well ... on the other hand that's the only way to know that a document
is the result of some XInclude processing and keep track of the fragments.
Simply xmlUnlinkNode/xmlFreeNode them if you don't need them.
  Now if they ended up being processed as normal node, that mean that
there is a tree traversal algorithm broken somewhere...

Daniel

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