Re: [xml] Inserting document fragment

[Kris Breuker <kris b-lex nl>]

Op 21-9-2006 11:44 heeft Daniel Veillard het volgende geschreven:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:18:04AM +0200, Kris Breuker wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I insert a document fragment node (XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE) into the 
> > XML tree (for example using xmlAddChild), the node itself gets inserted 
> > instead of its child nodes. This is a bit inconvenient because I am 
> > writing a DOM api for a scripting language we're developing here, and 
> > the specification 
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-B63ED1A3) states:
> >
> >
> > > Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as
> > > children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as
> > > arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the
> > > DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.
>
>
>   libxml2 don't pretend to implement DOM. XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE are
> an invention of DOM, they don't mean anything from an XML core spec 
> point of view, best is to not generate them in the first place.
>
>
> > I know I can use xmlAddChildList with the children property of the 
> > document fragment node, but there are no such functions for 
> > xmlAddPrevSibling (i.e. xmlAddPrevSiblingList). Is there an easy way of 
> > inserting the children of a document fragment instead of the document 
> > fragment itself?
>
>
>   If you know how to operate on a doubly linked list see -> next, -> prev
> and on the parent node -> children and -> last. There is already a awful
> lot of entry points in libxml2, I'm not sure I want to add more when in
> general people are already just lost trying to find the existing entry
> points. Either iterate on the list with the existing functions or do
> direct access to list structures.

Ok, I will look into that then.

Thanks, Kris