bug#9388: 24.0.50; Bug in libxml-parse-xml-region

[Jason Earl]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

open a file foo.xml with the following contents (although any valid xml
file will do).

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<foo/>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then start ielm and test libxml-parse-xml-region with the following bit
of elisp.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(with-current-buffer "foo.xml"
         (libxml-parse-xml-region (point-min) (point-max)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It will return nil, but it should return "(foo nil)".

This function was broken with bzr commit 105297 to trunk, and I believe
that it can be fixed with the following simple patch (at least it works
for me).

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
=== modified file 'src/xml.c'
--- src/xml.c   2011-07-24 14:01:58 +0000
+++ src/xml.c   2011-08-27 22:58:13 +0000
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 
   if (doc != NULL)
     {
-      xmlNode *n = doc->children->next;
+      xmlNode *n = doc->children;
       Lisp_Object r = Qnil;
 
       while (n) {

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


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In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-08-27 on jearl-desktop
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11001000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: IELM

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<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o <tab> r 
<tab> <return>

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