Re: [xml] Minor: What's `autark' when it's at home?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:09:05PM -0700, William M. Brack wrote:
> Nix wrote:
> > The documentation for xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode() states that it ensures `the
> > removed branch [is] autark wrt ns-references.'
> >
> > The only hits for `autark' in Google are in this code, so normally I'd
> > suspect that a search-and-replace run has transformed something else
> > into autarky: but in this case it was added at the same time as the
> > function, in r3123 by Kasimier Buchcik.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue what `autark' actually means? (In context, I'd
> > expect `up to date' or `not obsolete' or perhaps `consistent'?)
>
> See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/autarky - in this context, he
> basically means "self-sufficient", i.e. namespaces are included on the
> node itself.

  Heh, Kasimier wins the prize for the most cryptic while correct comment.
I guess it's worth a (virtual) beer,

Daniel

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