Re: [xml] Why does XML::LibXSLT (= the Perl 5 / CPAN wrappers for libxslt) Fails a Basic Test on some BSD and other systems?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 05:25:40PM +0100, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> On 14/02/2014 15:23, Yura wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I tried investigate this bug and as far I can see problem in a different behavior of the function 
> > xmlNodeGetSpacePreserve from libxml2.
>
> Good catch. The change you mentioned above made libxslt actually do
> the wrong thing and strip the text node. The relevant code is here:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/tree/libxslt/xslt.c?id=683cbc82dee4cea75822a0f7cafd97768b6165ff#n3556
>
> xmlNodeGetSpacePreserve is called with a text node and consequently
> returns -1 after the change. The relevant commit to libxml2 is
> "Adding various checks on node type though the API":
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=3e62adbe39f2083c9c2cd3330c320227818fd361
>
> This commit first appears in libxml2 version 2.9.0. I just committed
> a fix to libxslt to adjust for this change:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=7cb08dacadf7e1cf88ee2f45815251b61bffcde6

  thanks Nick :-)

Daniel

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