RE: [xml] python xmlReader remains in previous attribute

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Stéphane Bidoul said:
> > --- Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > > > The right number of node names are printed but after
> > > > reading the attributes all node names have the value
> > > > of the last read attribute.
> > >
> > >   Looks like a stupid bug, is that in bugzilla ? If no, please
> > > add it,
> >
> > Ok, filed as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147993
> >
> > Someone kindly pointed out to me off the list that I can use
> > MoveToElement() to workaround this problem. I am aware of
> > MoveToElement() (see my previous post
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2004-July/msg00035.html ) but
> > since the current behaviour of staying stuck on that attribute
> > while
> > underneath actually moving on is not documented I think it
> > should be changed.
>
> Sorry, I forgot to cc the list.
>
> Actually it is documented, in the .NET documentation.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
> frlrfsystemxmlxmltextreaderclassmovetoelementtopic.asp
> I haven't checked recently but according to their example and my
> memories it's the expected behaviour, so I don't think
> it should be changed, since the libxml2 XmlReader is supposed
> to work like the .NET one.
>
> -sbi

Hmm... now I'm a bit confused.  I was just in the midst of debugging
the problem (which is within the library itself, and not just a
python interface problem) when Stéphane's post arrived.  I have read
the data from the posted link (which describes how to use the
MoveToElement method), but I can't see from there why the Read
method should *not* return the proper node name.  Could someone
elaborate whether Read should return the proper name, or not?

Bill