Re: [xml] Behaviour of xmlNodeAddContent() vs. xmlNodeSetContent()

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:51:32PM +0200, Keim, Markus wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> well, comparing the documentation of both calls
> (I've actually done so before asking) doesn't make
> that different behaviour *that* obvious.

  Agreed, xmlNodeAddContent is lower level, working at the text node
string level while xmlNodeSetContent is more at the serialization level.
A lot of this is just history, not always very rational, and nearly
impossible to change. Though if you want to submit a patch to make 
the function comments more explicit, sure !

> However, a statement of you that both calls behave as intended
> is abolutely adequate (and appreciated) for my issue, I'd have
> to adjust the application, then.
>
> So, if I got this right, that would mean to
> - mandatory pass user input through xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant()
>   (resp. xmlEncodeSpecialChars()) before calling
>   xmlNodeSetContent()
>
> - mandatory NOT do so before calling xmlNodeAddContent()
> ?

  Yes that's my understanding :-)

Daniel

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