[lxml-dev] annotate, pyannotate, xsiannotate

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Holger,

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
> Things get difficult if you assign leaf elements and actually instantiate
> the python proxy objects. If no TREE attributes get used, these will end up
> being "default empty elements", usually string elements.
> 
> Also, once having been serialized, there is no way that leaf elements can
> be recognized as ObjectifiedElements without the help of the TREE
> attribute. That's the main reason I propose the keep_tree functionality, to
> make ObjectifiedElement-leaves survive a creation-serialization-parse
> cycle.

I think we should do this:

                if old_pytypename == TREE_PYTYPE:
                    if cetree.findChild(c_node, 0) is NULL:
                        pytype = TREE_PYTYPE
                else:
                    # check old type

Do you still think we need the keep_tree then?

Stefan