On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 06:28:25PM -0800, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> Hi libxml developers,
>
> [BTW, is this list alive?]
yes, why ?
> I noticed another issue with Python bindings of libxml: the access methods do
> not cast the pointers to specific classes such as xmlDtd, xmlEntityDecl, etc.
> For example, with the following document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE root [<!ELEMENT root EMPTY>]>
> <root/>
>
> the following script:
>
> import libxml2
> doc = libxml2.readFile("c.xml", None, libxml2.XML_PARSE_DTDLOAD)
> print repr(doc.children)
>
> prints:
>
> <xmlNode (root) object at 0xb74963ec>
>
> With properly cast nodes, it outputs the following:
>
> <xmlDtd (root) object at 0xb746352c>
>
> The latter object (xmlDtd) enables one to use DTD-specific methods such as
> debugDumpDTD(), copyDTD(), and so on.
okay, since those are subclasses of xmlNode() the
upgrade to the more specialized class should not lead to any
compatibility problem, it is a guaranteed improvement !
> Patch attached.
Applied and pushed,
thanks !
Daniel
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