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| author | Daniel Veillard <veillard@src.gnome.org> | 2001-02-10 09:35:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Veillard <veillard@src.gnome.org> | 2001-02-10 09:35:37 +0000 |
| commit | 7f41b3eb5b4f0ee45e58f6bc2c2899cad065063c (patch) | |
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| parent | 6a2e40604393375cf4c42c464a532dee0be82845 (diff) | |
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Fixed some old stuff, added the faq about blanks, Daniel
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diff --git a/doc/FAQ.html b/doc/FAQ.html index 8146f54c..765f60e1 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ.html +++ b/doc/FAQ.html @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Libxml Frequently asqued Questions</title> - <meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya V3.2.1"> + <meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya V4.1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> </head> @@ -119,30 +119,9 @@ href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/">http://xmlsoft.org/messages/</a></p> the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a href="http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html">implementation of the library</a> which source can be found <a - href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>. </li> + href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>.</li> </ul> </li> - <li><em>The Makefile for the example gjobread is not generated</em> - <p>This is due to a circular dependancy in automake. No solution found so - far (if you know how to fix this the patch will be very welcome), that - failure won't affect the actually building of the xml library. You can - later go in and create the example Makefile by hand or reuse the - following:</p> - <pre>CC=gcc - CFLAGS=`xml-config --cflags` - LDFLAGS=`xml-config --libs` - - all: gjobread - - clean: - <TAB>@(rm -f gjobread gjobread.o) - - gjobread.o : gjobread.c - <TAB>$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c gjobread.c - - gjobread: gjobread.o - <TAB>$(CC) -o gjobread gjobread.o $(LDFLAGS)</pre> - </li> <li><em>libxml does not compile with HP-UX's optional ANSI-C compiler</em> <p>this is due to macro limitations. Try to add " -Wp,-H16800 -Ae" to the CFLAGS</p> @@ -161,6 +140,36 @@ href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/">http://xmlsoft.org/messages/</a></p> <h2><a name="Developper">Developper</a> corner</h2> <ol> + <li>Extra nodes in the document: + <p><em>For a XML file as below:</em><br> + </p> + <p><code><em><?xml version="1.0"?></em></code></p> + <p><code><em><PLAN + xmlns="http://www.argus.ca/autotest/1.0/"></em></code></p> + <p><code><em><NODE CommFlag="0"/></em></code></p> + <p><code><em><NODE CommFlag="1"/></em></code></p> + <p><code><em></PLAN> </em></code></p> + <p><em>after parsing it with the function + pxmlDoc=xmlParseFile(...);</em></p> + <p><em>I want to the get the content of the first node (node with the + CommFlag="0")</em></p> + <p><em>so I did it as following;</em></p> + <p><code><em>xmlNodePtr pode;</em></code></p> + <p><code><em>pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children;</em></code></p> + <p><em>but it does not work. If I change it to</em></p> + <p><code><em>pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children->next;</em></code></p> + <p><em>then it works. Can someone explain it to me.</em></p> + <p></p> + <p>In XML all characters in the content of the document are signifficant + <strong>including blanks and formatting line breaks</strong>.</p> + <p>The extra nodes you are wondering about are just that, text nodes with + the formatting spaces wich are part of the document but that people tend + to forget. There is a function <a + href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlKeepBlanksDefault + ()</a> to remove those at parse time, but that's an heuristic, and its + use should be limited to case where you are sure there is no mixed-content + in the document.</p> + </li> <li><em>I get compilation errors of existing code like when accessing <strong>root</strong> or <strong>childs fields</strong> of nodes</em> <p>You are compiling code developped for libxml version 1 and using a @@ -177,12 +186,9 @@ href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/">http://xmlsoft.org/messages/</a></p> >= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) >= 2.1.0</p> </li> <li><em>XPath implementation looks seriously broken</em> - <p>True, it's incomplete and the version released in 2.0.0 was nearly - unusable. A set of patches from <a href="http://www.picdar.co.uk/">Picdar - Technology</a> have been integrated in 2.1.0 fixing the most nasty bugs. - But there is still bugs and its incomplete. Patches and bug reports are - welcome. This will be worked out, XPath implementation is not abandonned, - just a momentary lack of time.</p> + <p>XPath implementation prior to 2.3.0 was really incomplete, upgrade to a + recent version, the implementation and debug of libxslt generated fixes + for most obvious problems. </p> </li> <li><em>The example provided in the web page does not compile</em> <p>It's hard to maintain the documentation in sync with the code |