Re: [xml] using xmlDocSetRootElement to move nodes between documents

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> > On 27/07/04 19:11, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> [snip]
> > > is moving nodes between documents in general not supported this way?
> >
> >
> > No, it isn't. You must call xmlUnlinkNode to get the node out of the 
> > first document. Then you can insert it into the new document. And take a 
> > good care about namespaces, should either document use them.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this cannot be it, as 
> xmlDocSetRootElement() calls xmlUnlinkNode on the node in any case:
[...]
> I also tried using xmlSetTreeDoc, but that doesn't help either (and it's 
> hard to say what to call it in the original document, as I'm moving the 
> document element).

  it's really a dictionnary problem, there is no simple fix once the
document is built. The only other option would be to check and cleanup
all potential dictionnary strings when moving nodes this way, very
annoying.

Daniel

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