Re: [xml] Smart way to get ancestors?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:11:35PM +0200, Michael Ransburg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A small update, this is the way I retrieve the ancestors now:
>
>       node = xmlTextReaderExpand(reader);
>
>       node->children = NULL;
>       node->prev = NULL;
>       node->next = NULL;
>
>       while (node->parent != NULL) {
>               node = node->parent;
>       }
>       xmlDocSetRootElement(doc,xmlCopyNode(node->children,1));
>
> This works fine - is it a proper way to accomplish this?

  Why are you using the reader (i.e streaming) when it seems you
need full tree informations ?
  Modifying a node or document being processed by a reader is not
proper, that should be considered read-only really.

Daniel

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