Re: [xml] redicting parts of trees

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:02 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:50:35PM +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> > > > 3. unlink @node and don't link to @parent, linking will be done by the
> > > >    user afterwards at the desired position in the children of @parent
> > >
> > >   I'm thinking of 3/, however if the node is already linked to parent
> > > then don't unlink it.
> >
> > If 3/, I see the following problems, if @node is linked to @parent
> > already:
> > 1. If @node is an attribute, we will loose ability to remove it from
> >    the ID list, since the previous parent is not known.
> >    So the user will be responsible for removing IDs.
> > 2. The user might have tried by himself to add an ID to the
> >    destination-doc (if this attribute was an ID) before adoption;
> >    this could be incorrect; were are remapping entity-references, so
> >    the value of the attribute can change during adoption.
>
>   seems to me in both case, the user made an error before calling
> the import, and if we can't correct it, well it's not our fault.

OK. If @node is an attribute, I'll skip removal of the ID.

Regards,

Kasimier