Re: [xml] Child elements in XML fragments.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 12:57:57PM -0700, Kyle VanderBeek wrote:
> I hate to be a nag, but here I am again.
>
> Is there any theoretical or design reason not to apply this patch to
> tree.c? As I mentioned, working with HTML fragments to build we pages is a
> pretty common task. Being able to traverse entity children on such a
> fragment would be useful. I suspect this was just an oversight.
>
> Comments? Concerns?

  Yup, just an oversight IMHO

and I have been travelling for work in the last 10 days so didn't
look at it until today,

Daniel
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Kyle VanderBeek <kylev kylev com> 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>.
> >
> > --
> > kylev kylev com
> >   Some people have a way with words, while others... erm... thingy.
>
>
>
> -- 
> kylev kylev com
>   Some people have a way with words, while others... erm... thingy.


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