modified the handling of _private for entity expansion (bug 155816)
* parser.c: modified the handling of _private for entity
expansion (bug 155816)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e880548..59d3807 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Oct 25 16:04:22 PDT 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
+
+ * parser.c: modified the handling of _private for entity
+ expansion (bug 155816)
+
Mon Oct 25 17:11:37 CEST 2004 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
* parser.c: fixed the leak reported by Volker Roth on the list
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 053fdc3..21e7aad 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -5609,6 +5609,19 @@
ctxt->sax->reference(ctxt->userData, ent->name);
return;
} else if (ctxt->replaceEntities) {
+ /*
+ * There is a problem on the handling of _private for entities
+ * (bug 155816): Should we copy the content of the field from
+ * the entity (possibly overwriting some value set by the user
+ * when a copy is created), should we leave it alone, or should
+ * we try to take care of different situations? The problem
+ * is exacerbated by the usage of this field by the xmlReader.
+ * To fix this bug, we look at _private on the created node
+ * and, if it's NULL, we copy in whatever was in the entity.
+ * If it's not NULL we leave it alone. This is somewhat of a
+ * hack - maybe we should have further tests to determine
+ * what to do.
+ */
if ((ctxt->node != NULL) && (ent->children != NULL)) {
/*
* Seems we are generating the DOM content, do
@@ -5632,7 +5645,8 @@
while (cur != NULL) {
nw = xmlCopyNode(cur, 1);
if (nw != NULL) {
- nw->_private = cur->_private;
+ if (nw->_private == NULL)
+ nw->_private = cur->_private;
if (firstChild == NULL){
firstChild = nw;
}
@@ -5675,7 +5689,8 @@
cur->parent = NULL;
nw = xmlCopyNode(cur, 1);
if (nw != NULL) {
- nw->_private = cur->_private;
+ if (nw->_private == NULL)
+ nw->_private = cur->_private;
if (firstChild == NULL){
firstChild = cur;
}