fixed attribute-killing bug

git-svn-id: http://developer.marklogic.com/svn/commons/trunk@923 e04f4502-82db-0310-b1af-f799f365da79
imuchnik · Dec 10, 2008 · c46f79f · c46f79f
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diff --git a/scaffolding/readme.txt b/scaffolding/readme.txt
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 Abstract: Scaffolding is useful for making quick text edits and minor structural changes to existing xml files.
 
-Warning: This script can make modifications to the contents of your MarkLogic database. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Do not make this file accessible in a production environment unless you really know what you're doing. There are still unresolved bugs, see below.
+Warning: This script can make modifications to the contents of your MarkLogic database. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Do not make this file accessible in a production environment.
 
 Notes:
 
     * Able to make text-node updates to any xml documents it has access to.
     * Able to duplicate (insert) sibling elements, and remove elements altogether. Careful when removing, if you remove the last node of it's kind, there's no way to bring it back.
-    * Doesn't handle elements which contain both text-node AND element-node children. For example, an element containing markup-like content such as <message>xquery is <b>lots</b> of <i>fun</i></message> will be read as <message>xquery is lots of fun</message>.
+    * Doesn't handle elements which contain both text-node AND element-node children. For example, an element containing markup-like content such as <message>xquery is <b>lots</b> of <i>fun</i></message> will be read (and saved) as <message>xquery is lots of fun</message>.
     * The MarkLogic user executing this script must have permission to execute xdmp:eval.
     * This file is entirely self-contained, no dependancies. Just drop it anywhere in your project and go.
-    * Apologies for the complete lack of commenting, this is still in the works.
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-Bugs: When saving a document containing attributes which are part of an element which has only text-node children (ex. <sign width="10" height="5">hello</sign>), those attributes vanish (ex. <sign>hello</sign>). Attributes which are part of an element which has only element-node children are saved successfully. If you grab the command from the log and execute it standalone (in CQ, for example), given the same document, the attributes are saved successfully. I still have no idea why this is happening, see line 41 and 43 of this file.
 
 Motivation: Our website translations reside in xml files. I find it useful to view a translation with Scaffolding to make quick edits and additions to the output phrases, rather than editing a local file and re-loading it into MarkLogic for every change.