Re: [xml] assigning attribute value without using

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:04:18PM +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it sane to use "xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)attr, 
> xmlNewDocText(attr->doc, BAD_CAST "&ent1;")" instead of 
> "xmlNodeSetContent" if assigning a value to an attribute node?
>
> The intention is to reflect the DOM Attr.value method:
> "On setting, this creates a Text node with the unparsed contents of the 
> string, i.e. any characters that an XML processor would recognize as 
> markup are instead treated as literal text."
>
> I tried serialization and it worked fine.
>
> Does anyone see any side effects?

  That should work, assuming attr->children == NULL, otherwise unlink the
children node list and free it.

Daniel

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