Re: [xml] Does libxml2 create nodes on-the-fly?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:39:05AM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 24.06.06 09:12:47, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:26:47AM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > (though I'm not familiar with libxml2's C Interface, nor the
> > > Python-C-Bridge-Stuff in general)...
> >
> >   Should be fairly simple, make a C python binding routine based on
> > existing ones in python/libxml.c , give it a significant name,
> > change the beginning to expect 2 python obect references as arguments,
> > see type.h to see how the C object is attached, get the two xmlNodePtr
> > associated. Compare them, and return an python 0 or 1, then register
> > the new routine at the end of libxml.c
> >   now in libxml.py override the comparator operator to call that routine
> > in libxml2mod, add a python test case in test/ and bingo you're done :-)
>
> Hmm, this thread looks interesting now :-)
>
> Thanks to William Brack I could create a proper patch that enables
> comparison of Python objects derived from xmlCore (i.e. xmlNode and all
> subclasses). The bugreport is 345779 and I hope it'll make it into some
> not-so-distant future version of libxml2.

  See it wasn't that hard :-)
William will probably commit it later if he thinks it's ready for final
inclusion, 

  thanks, I hope doing those extra steps will help you use libxml2 in the
long term !

Daniel

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