[libxml-devel] << operator

[Charlie Savage]

> 
> XML::Node.new('foo') << XML::Node.new('bar') << XML::Node.new('baz')
> 
> Should produce:
> 
> <foo><bar><baz/></bar></foo>
> 
> XML::Node<<(arg) should return the argument being appended *ONLY IF* the 
> argument is an XML::Node, else it should return the xmlNode that had its 
> content modified (e.g. XML::Attributes and Strings).
> 
> That should solve this problem.

So in this case the first << returns the 'bar' node and the second << 
returns the baz node.

Thus:

node = XML::Node.new('foo') << XML::Node.new('bar') << XML::Node.new('baz')

node is baz.  Which is annoying, because most of the time I imagine you 
want foo (at least I want foo).  Thus, returning the appended argument 
is great, until the very end, where you want the original node...

Charlie
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