Re: [xml] Child elements in XML fragments.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 02:59:12PM -0700, Kyle VanderBeek wrote:
> Apologies for the self-serving inquiry, but I thought I'd come over and
> address an issue I found over in Ruby-land (Nokogiri) while working with
> some HTML fragments in a Rails application.
>
> I noticed that the suite of "element children" functions
> (xmlChildElementCount, xmlFirstElementChild and xmlLastElementChild) don't
> work on document fragments. However, it's something I frequently want to do
> while inspection partial sections of templates that would later be rolled
> into a complete web page.
>
> Is there any standards- or design-based reason for this? I'd like to
> convince the Nokogiri maintainers to include this functionality, but I
> don't want to cause a divergence in behavior from libxml2.
>
> I worked up a really simple patch and attached it to my bug
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733900>.

 Yep, that looks just fine, applied and pushed,

  thanks !

Daniel

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