RE: [xml] python xmlReader remains in previous attribute

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

Stéphane Bidoul said:
> > 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?
>
> I did the test... and my memory proved wrong.
> The following C# code does work with or without MoveToElement:
>
>       string s = "<test><e1 a1='a1' a2='a2'/><e2/></test>";
>       XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(s));
>       while(reader.Read())
>       {
>               Console.WriteLine(reader.Name);
>               if (reader.HasAttributes)
>               {
>                       while(reader.MoveToNextAttribute())
>                       {
>                               Console.WriteLine(" {0}={1}", reader.Name, reader.Value);
>                       }
>                       //reader.MoveToElement();
>               }
>       }
>
> So yes, after moving to the last attribute,
> the next Read should move to the next node.
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> -sbi

OK, thanks for the information and the additional test.  I made a
small change to the code, and believe it should now be behaving
properly.  The change is in CVS (xmlreader.c).