Re: [xml] XHTML Doc serialization and meta element

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:15:01PM -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
> Not sure which way this is going to be handled, but I took a crack at 
> doing it when serializing.
> Attached is the diff of the changes I made (only meant to look at not 
> meant to be commited).
> It looks a bit hackish, but couldnt see any other way to do it.
> Didn't touch the HTMLTree.c file at this point till its decided if this 
> is to be done during serialization or one of the other possible ways.
>
> Another thing doing it this way is previously, meta element is only 
> added if dumping the document element (html).
> Now, if the head element were dumped as the top node in 
> xmlNodeDumpOutput, the meta element is still going to be added to the 
> output as there is no way to know then first node being dumped since all 
> that is avaiable is the node and the xmlSaveCtxt (probably not a big 
> deal though).

  Okay I read the patch, this is basically the way I would prefer to see
this implemented. Of course there might be some details to get right,
I would expect for example the serialization to be the same to the old
code in the majority of the cases (i.e. running the test suite would raise
a difference only for the XHTML document with an http-equiv meta element
in head assuming we have any of those). Goal is to have the least surprize
possible for those already using the feature whithout knowing :-), and
avoid the modification of the tree which is nasty.

  So I like it but the devil is in the details :-)

Daniel

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