Re: [xml] Potential wrong usage of xmlIsID() in tree.c

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:05:46PM +0100, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> [ ... cut an invalid example ... ]
>
> According to Daniel, the IDness based on DTDs can really be queried by a
> element/attribute combination, without caring if at overall valid
> position.
>
> So maybe we could advance by looking at the second option: making the
> DTD based detection optional.

  DTD loading itself is optional, ID detection can't be garanteed.
However IDness is really the result of checking (element name/attribute name)
in the DTD (or internal subset) when inserted in the document.

> > Thanks for the clarification. After your follow up message I thought you 
> > meant that detection in general was broken.
> >
> > I just saw your latest message and I was about to propose something 
> > exactly along those lines. This way if it defaulted to enabled then 
> > libxml2 could operate as intended. In the case using the lib to 
> > implement DOM, it could be disabled and ID detection work as we have 
> > kind of layed out in these messages. Is it possible to extend the 
> > document node to include flags? This way it might also serve any future 
> > need to provide some instructions or indications on the state of the 
> > document?
>
> Sounds great.
> Daniel, could we have that flag field on xmlDoc?

  Explain clearly the semantic of it. A priori I'm not too fond of it
if we start having different data structure based on what is using the
library we just make debugging on bug reports near impossible.

Daniel

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