Re: [xml] libxml2 xmlDocSetRootElement does not set root element

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 05:07:43 EST

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:56:15AM -0800, Deja User wrote:
>
> Package: gnome-xml
> Version: 2.2.4
>
> There is a problem with libxml2-2.2.4 (also libxml2-2.2.10) that affects xmlDocSetRootElement. It is related to the problem of moving nodes between documents described in Todo.
>
> The function xmlDocSetRootElement uses xmlReplaceNode.

  only if there was already a root node !!!
otherwise it uses xmlAddSibling() which updates the linked list

> The element doc->children is not updated by xmlReplaceNode.
> The element doc->children is not updated by xmlUnlinkNode.
> The function xmlDocGetRootElement relies on doc->children.

  there might be problem when moving nodes between documents (especially
ID/IDREF and namespace links maintenance) but I think that the
main children/parent tree is correctly updated. If not be a bit more
specific please,

Daniel 

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