On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:08:42PM -0400, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When manipulating libxml2's tree, when is it required to call the > xmlValidate*() functions? I did some testing, and it seems that libxml2 > will happily create attributes or elements that do not conform to the > lexical space of Name, etc. When the tree is serialized the XML is > invalid, but libxml2 doesn't explode or anything like that. > > Also, I'm curious to know where lies the burden for checking the > validity of these things. Is the client code expected to check? If so,
yes. > is there a "safe" wrapper that will automatically do the checks? I Hum, no ... just call xmlValidateName before the normal tree API call. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
