From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xml-get-attribute returns "" if not found Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:32:10 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <878ymk5eb8.fsf@weblog.localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068802859 30641 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 09:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Magnus Henoch , rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 10:40:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKaRk-00033K-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:40:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKaRj-0000mP-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKbI1-0006TI-20 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKbHK-0006BG-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKbGn-0005pw-R0 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:34:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AKbGn-0005pZ-D9; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 05:33:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C8817EE873; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:32:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by sykes.suse.de (Postfix, from userid 597) id D97B41251AA2C; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:32:14 +0100 (CET) Original-To: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) X-Yow: With this weapon I can expose fictional characters and bring about sweeping reforms!! In-Reply-To: <878ymk5eb8.fsf@weblog.localhost> (Mark A. Hershberger's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:11:23 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17815 mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes: > -(defun xml-get-attribute (node attribute) > +(defun xml-get-attribute-or-nil (node attribute) > "Get from NODE the value of ATTRIBUTE. > -An empty string is returned if the attribute was not found." > +nil is returned if the attribute was not found. "Return nil if ...." Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."