[erlang-questions] xmerl expanded names

[Ulf Wiger]

Refreshing my memory of the xmerl_scan code, I came across this apparent discrepancy:

-record(xmlElement,{
	  name,			% atom()
	  expanded_name = [],	% string() | {URI,Local} | {"xmlns",Local}


So the types are just comments, leaving Dialyzer out of this, but, in xmerl_scan.erl:

processed_whole_element(S=#xmerl_scanner{...},
			Pos, Name, Attrs, Lang, Parents, NSI, Namespace) ->
     ...,

    {ExpName, ExpAttrs} =
	case S#xmerl_scanner.namespace_conformant of
	    true ->
                …
		{expanded_name(Name, NSI, Namespace, S), ExpAttrsX};
	    false ->
		{Name, AllAttrs}
	end,

    #xmlElement{name = Name,
		...,
		expanded_name = ExpName,
		...}.

If S#xmerl_scanner.namespace_conformant == false, ExpName = Name, but Name cannot be an atom() and a string() at the same time.

The type comments in xmerl.hrl, then, are likely incorrect. Or is it the code? Less likely, I think.

The bug is of course that Dialyzer cannot parse xmerl comments. :)

BR,
Ulf W