[libxml-devel] << operator

[Sean Chittenden]

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> If the argument to << is a string, append to the xmlNode->content  
> via xmlNodeAddContent(3).  If, however, the argument is an  
> XML::Node, then use xmlAddChild(3) to add an xmlNode->child node.

And if it's an atribute:

node1 << XML::Attribute.new('foo','bar')

You'd end up with:

<foo foo="bar"/>

Here's the problem and line that I haven't drawn yet:

node1 << XML::Attribute.new('foo','bar') << 'baz'

What's that produce?  '<foo foo="bar"/>baz' or '<foo foo="barbaz"/ 
 >' ??  I think chaining objects together is a common practice and  
more convenient than doing one assignment per line, so I'm biased  
towards the behavior of the former (not the latter).

Arguments/discussion welcome.  -sc


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Sean Chittenden
sean at chittenden.org



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