[DotGNU]System.Xml

[Simon Guindon]

Well I decided to take a stab at one of the System.Xml bugs I posted
that Gopal found last week about ReadAttributeValue never returning
false.  So I took a look and ReadAttributeValue returns true no matter
what, theres no evaluation for returning false.  I'm not too sure what
to base the true/false decision on but I took a stab and ended up with
this:

if (attributeIndex < attributes.Count)
{
        value = attributes[attributeIndex].Value;
        nodeType = XmlNodeType.Text;
        return true;
}
else
{
        return false;
}

But it doesn't seem to work.  So I further added some Console.WriteLine
debug outputting in Gopal's test case to specifically see in what order
the loops are happening, and when they break the loops in .NET so I can
see the read behavior.  Basically what I come up with is
ReadAttributeValue on .NET would return true, false, true, false, true,
false.  So I'm not too clear how to make that decision in the
ReadAttributeMethod for us.

I was hoping the mailing list could perhaps give some insight.  I've
attached gopal's testcase modified with my outputting and here are my
results on .NET to guide by:

True
1.0
False
READ
True
http://etherx.jabber.org/streams
False
True
9ee4bd1a
False
True
jabber:client
False
True
gopal
False
READ

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Simon Guindon
Nureality Networks
www.nureality.ca

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