Re: [xml] type of documents is a string??

[Andreas Pakulat <apaku gmx de>]

On 19.06.06 15:48:50, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 14.06.06 23:21:12, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > I'm resending this mail, as it seems that the mailing list has come back
> > to live (I can see the earlier post in the archive, but it never made it
> > back to me).
> >
> > I'm using the python bindings of libxml2 2.6.26 and 
> >
> > > > > doc=libxml2.parseFile('/home/andreas/temp/file1.xml')
> > > > > print doc.type
> > document_xml
> >
> > returns a string and not the expected value libxml2.XML_DOCUMENT_NODE.
> > Is that right? Am I doing something wrong?

This is even worse, libxml2 "translates" the types to some arbitrary
strings for at least document, element and text nodes and this is not
documented anywhere.

I'm going to file a bug report tomorrow, if there's nobody who can
explain this.

Andreas

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