The sxml package has some strange behavior on DAGs. Before I go and try to fix it (or at least put a warning in the docs), I want to make sure it's a bug.
The problem is that when a given node appears multiple times in an SXML
document--that is, the eq?-same pointer--, calling sxml:modify to delete those
nodes only deletes *some* of those instances.
#lang racket
(require sxml)
(define zombie-node '(zombie))
(define t3
`(*TOP*
(body
(a ,zombie-node
,zombie-node)
(b ,zombie-node
,zombie-node))))
(check-equal? ((sxml:modify '("//zombie" delete)) t3)
`(*TOP* (body (a) (b))))
;; FAILS: produces (*TOP* (body (a (zombie)) (b (zombie)))) ... that is, half
the zombies didn't die.
I claim the "most disgusting workaround of the week" award for my TeX-like
solution of just calling sxml:modify again and again to get rid of them all...
Anyhow, can any of the distinguished programmers familiar with this code
confirm that this is not the desired behavior?
John
p.s.: sorry for the double-posting to three of you; my earlier message was sent
with a bad From:, and got bounced from users.
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