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 <ky...@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>. > > > > -- > > ky...@kylev.com > > Some people have a way with words, while others... erm... thingy. > > > > > > -- > ky...@kylev.com > Some people have a way with words, while others... erm... thingy. > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > xml@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
