Re: Usage of libxml2 for several modules

[Mike Kaplinskiy]

While we're on the subject of libxml2, there is a small problem with
the way we use xmlAddChild. msxml doesn't automatically coalesce text
nodes when two are next to each other in the tree and keeps them as
two separate entities (you call normalize to coalesce them). libxml2
does this automatically when doing xmlAddChild.
> From http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlAddChild :

Add a new node to @parent, at the end of the child (or property) list
merging adjacent TEXT nodes (in which case @cur is freed)

Which means we can potentially have disappearing nodes. Should I also
file a feature request to have the auto coalescing be toggleable? I
don't think there is any good way of solving this ourselves.

I guess this would also be a vote for importing libxml2 (or at least
forking it).

Mike.