libxml-ruby 0.9.9-x86-mswin32-60 → 1.0.0-x86-mswin32-60

data/ext/libxml/ruby_xml_node.c

@@ -1,1428 +1,1428 @@
-#include "ruby_libxml.h"
-#include "ruby_xml_node.h"
-
-VALUE cXMLNode;
-
-/* Document-class: LibXML::XML::Node
- *
- * Nodes are the primary objects that make up an XML document.
- * The node class represents most node types that are found in
- * an XML document (but not Attributes, see LibXML::XML::Attribute).
- * It exposes libxml's full API for creating, querying
- * moving and deleting node objects.  Many of these methods are
- * documented in the DOM Level 3 specification found at:
- * http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/. */
-
-static VALUE rxml_node_content_set(VALUE self, VALUE content);
-
-VALUE check_string_or_symbol(VALUE val)
-{
-  if (TYPE(val) != T_STRING && TYPE(val) != T_SYMBOL)
-  {
-    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError,
-        "wrong argument type %s (expected String or Symbol)", rb_obj_classname(
-            val));
-  }
-  return rb_obj_as_string(val);
-}
-
-/* Memory management:
- *
- * The bindings create a one-to-one mapping between libxml nodes
- * and Ruby nodes.  If a libxml node is wraped, its _private member
- * is set with a reference to the Ruby object.
- *
- * When a libxml document or top level node is freed, it will free
- * all its children.  Thus Ruby is responsible for:
- *
- *  * Using the mark function to keep alive any documents Ruby is
- *    referencing via the document or child nodes.
- *  * Using the mark function to keep alive any top level, free
- *    standing nodes Ruby is referencing via the node or its children.
- *
- * Ruby will always set a free function when wrapping a node.  However,
- * the bindings also register a callback that is invoked by libxml
- * each time a node is freed.  When the callback is called, the node's
- * dfree member is set to NULL since Ruby no longer should free the node.
- */
-
-void rxml_node_deregisterNode(xmlNodePtr xnode)
-{
-  /* Has the node been wrapped and exposed to Ruby? */
-  if (xnode->_private)
-  {
-    /* Node was wrapped.  Set the _private member to free and
-      then dislabe the dfree function so that Ruby will not
-      try to free the node a second time. */
-    VALUE node = (VALUE) xnode->_private;
-    RDATA(node)->dfree = NULL;
-    xnode->_private = NULL;
-  }
-}
-
-void rxml_node_free(xmlNodePtr xnode)
-{
-  /* The Ruby object that wraps the node no longer exists. */
-  xnode->_private = NULL;
-
-  /* Only free nodes that are stand-alone, top level nodes.
-     If a node belongs to a document, or a parent node, then
-     the document or parent node will free thsi node. */
-  if (xnode->doc == NULL && xnode->parent == NULL)
-    xmlFreeNode(xnode);
-}
-
-void rxml_node_mark_common(xmlNodePtr xnode)
-{
-  if (xnode->parent == NULL)
-    return;
-
-  if (xnode->doc != NULL)
-  {
-    if (xnode->doc->_private == NULL)
-      rb_bug("XmlNode Doc is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__,__LINE__);
-    rb_gc_mark((VALUE) xnode->doc->_private);
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    while (xnode->parent != NULL)
-      xnode = xnode->parent;
-
-    if (xnode->_private == NULL)
-      rb_warning("XmlNode Root Parent is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__,__LINE__);
-    else
-      rb_gc_mark((VALUE) xnode->_private);
-  }
-}
-
-void rxml_node_mark(xmlNodePtr xnode)
-{
-  if (xnode == NULL)
-    return;
-
-  if (xnode->_private == NULL)
-  {
-    rb_warning("XmlNode is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__, __LINE__);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  rxml_node_mark_common(xnode);
-}
-
-VALUE rxml_node_wrap(xmlNodePtr xnode)
-{
-  /* Is the node already wrapped? */
-  if (xnode->_private != NULL)
-  {
-    return (VALUE) xnode->_private;
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    /* Assume Ruby is responsible for freeing this node.  If libxml frees it
-       instead, the rxml_node_deregisterNode callback is executed, and
-       we set the free function to NULL. */
-    VALUE node = Data_Wrap_Struct(cXMLNode, rxml_node_mark, rxml_node_free, xnode);
-    xnode->_private = (void*) node;
-    return node;
-  }
-}
-
-static VALUE rxml_node_alloc(VALUE klass)
-{
-  /* Ruby is responsible for freeing this node not libxml. */
-  return Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, rxml_node_mark, rxml_node_free, NULL);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    XML::Node.new_cdata(content = nil) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Create a new #CDATA node, optionally setting
- * the node's content.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_new_cdata(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
-{
-  VALUE content = Qnil;
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &content);
-
-  if (NIL_P(content))
-  {
-    xnode = xmlNewCDataBlock(NULL, NULL, 0);
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
-    xnode = xmlNewCDataBlock(NULL, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(content),
-        RSTRING_LEN(content));
-  }
-
-  if (xnode == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    XML::Node.new_comment(content = nil) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Create a new comment node, optionally setting
- * the node's content.
- *
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_new_comment(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
-{
-  VALUE content = Qnil;
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &content);
-
-  if (NIL_P(content))
-  {
-    xnode = xmlNewComment(NULL);
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
-    xnode = xmlNewComment((xmlChar*) StringValueCStr(content));
-  }
-
-  if (xnode == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    XML::Node.new_text(content) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Create a new text node.
- *
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_new_text(VALUE klass, VALUE content)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Check_Type(content, T_STRING);
-  content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
-
-  xnode = xmlNewText((xmlChar*) StringValueCStr(content));
-
-  if (xnode == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    XML::Node.initialize(name, content = nil, namespace = nil) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Creates a new element with the specified name, content and
- * namespace. The content and namespace may be nil.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
-{
-  VALUE name;
-  VALUE content;
-  VALUE ns;
-  xmlNodePtr xnode = NULL;
-  xmlNsPtr xns = NULL;
-
-  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "12", &name, &content, &ns);
-
-  name = check_string_or_symbol(name);
-
-  if (!NIL_P(ns))
-    Data_Get_Struct(ns, xmlNs, xns);
-
-  xnode = xmlNewNode(xns, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(name));
-  xnode->_private = (void*) self;
-  DATA_PTR( self) = xnode;
-
-  if (!NIL_P(content))
-    rxml_node_content_set(self, content);
-
-  return self;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.base_uri -> "uri"
- *
- * Obtain this node's base URI.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_base_uri_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlChar* base_uri;
-  VALUE result = Qnil;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (xnode->doc == NULL)
-    return (result);
-
-  base_uri = xmlNodeGetBase(xnode->doc, xnode);
-  if (base_uri)
-  {
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) base_uri);
-    xmlFree(base_uri);
-  }
-
-  return (result);
-}
-
-// TODO node_base_set should support setting back to nil
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.base_uri = "uri"
- *
- * Set this node's base URI.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_base_uri_set(VALUE self, VALUE uri)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Check_Type(uri, T_STRING);
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  if (xnode->doc == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-
-  xmlNodeSetBase(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(uri));
-  return (Qtrue);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.content -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain this node's content as a string.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_content_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlChar *content;
-  VALUE result = Qnil;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  content = xmlNodeGetContent(xnode);
-  if (content)
-  {
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char *) content);
-    xmlFree(content);
-  }
-
-  return result;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.content = "string"
- *
- * Set this node's content to the specified string.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_content_set(VALUE self, VALUE content)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Check_Type(content, T_STRING);
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  // XXX docs indicate need for escaping entites, need to be done? danj
-  xmlNodeSetContent(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(content));
-  return (Qtrue);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.content_stripped -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain this node's stripped content.
- *
- * *Deprecated*: Stripped content can be obtained via the
- * +content+ method.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_content_stripped_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlChar* content;
-  VALUE result = Qnil;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (!xnode->content)
-    return result;
-
-  content = xmlNodeGetContent(xnode);
-  if (content)
-  {
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) content);
-    xmlFree(content);
-  }
-  return (result);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.debug -> true|false
- *
- * Print libxml debugging information to stdout.
- * Requires that libxml was compiled with debugging enabled.
-*/
-static VALUE rxml_node_debug(VALUE self)
-{
-#ifdef LIBXML_DEBUG_ENABLED
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xmlDebugDumpNode(NULL, xnode, 2);
-  return Qtrue;
-#else
-  rb_warn("libxml was compiled without debugging support.")
-  return Qfalse;
-#endif
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.first -> XML::Node
- *
- * Returns this node's first child node if any.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_first_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (xnode->children)
-    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->children));
-  else
-    return (Qnil);
-}
-
-/*
- * underlying for child_set and child_add, difference being
- * former raises on implicit copy, latter does not.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_child_set_aux(VALUE self, VALUE child)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode, xchild, xresult;
-
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(child, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
-    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  Data_Get_Struct(child, xmlNode, xchild);
-
-  if (xchild->parent != NULL || xchild->doc != NULL)
-    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError,
-            "Cannot move a node from one document to another with child= or <<.  First copy the node before moving it.");
-
-  xresult = xmlAddChild(xnode, xchild);
-
-  if (!xresult)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.child = node
- *
- * Set a child node for this node. Also called for <<
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_child_set(VALUE self, VALUE rnode)
-{
-  return rxml_node_child_set_aux(self, rnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node << ("string" | node) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Add the specified string or XML::Node to this node's
- * content.  The returned node is the node that was
- * added and not self, thereby allowing << calls to
- * be chained.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_content_add(VALUE self, VALUE obj)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  VALUE str;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  /* XXX This should only be legal for a CDATA type node, I think,
-   * resulting in a merge of content, as if a string were passed
-   * danj 070827
-   */
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(obj, cXMLNode))
-  {
-    rxml_node_child_set(self, obj);
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    str = rb_obj_as_string(obj);
-    if (NIL_P(str) || TYPE(str) != T_STRING)
-      rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "invalid argument: must be string or XML::Node");
-
-    xmlNodeAddContent(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(str));
-  }
-  return (self);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.child_add(node)
- *
- * Set a child node for this node.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_child_add(VALUE self, VALUE rnode)
-{
-  return rxml_node_child_set_aux(self, rnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.doc -> document
- *
- * Obtain the XML::Document this node belongs to.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_doc(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlDocPtr doc = NULL;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  switch (xnode->type)
-  {
-  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
-    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#endif
-  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-    doc = NULL;
-    break;
-  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-  {
-    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
-    doc = attr->doc;
-    break;
-  }
-  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
-    doc = NULL;
-    break;
-  default:
-    doc = xnode->doc;
-    break;
-  }
-
-  if (doc == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-
-  if (doc->_private == NULL)
-    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "existing document object has no ruby-instance");
-
-  return (VALUE) doc->_private;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.to_s -> "string"
- *    node.to_s(:indent => true, :encoding => 'UTF-8', :level => 0) -> "string"
- *
- * Converts a node, and all of its children, to a string representation.
- * You may provide an optional hash table to control how the string is 
- * generated.  Valid options are:
- * 
- * :indent - Specifies if the string should be indented.  The default value
- * is true.  Note that indentation is only added if both :indent is
- * true and XML.indent_tree_output is true.  If :indent is set to false,
- * then both indentation and line feeds are removed from the result.
- *
- * :level  - Specifies the indentation level.  The amount of indentation
- * is equal to the (level * number_spaces) + number_spaces, where libxml
- * defaults the number of spaces to 2.  Thus a level of 0 results in
- * 2 spaces, level 1 results in 4 spaces, level 2 results in 6 spaces, etc.
- *
- * :encoding - Specifies the output encoding of the string.  It
- * defaults to XML::Encoding::UTF8.  To change it, use one of the
- * XML::Encoding encoding constants. */
-
-static VALUE rxml_node_to_s(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
-{
-  VALUE result = Qnil;
-  VALUE options = Qnil;
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlCharEncodingHandlerPtr encodingHandler;
-  xmlOutputBufferPtr output;
-
-  int level = 0;
-  int indent = 1;
-  const char *xencoding = NULL;
-
-  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &options);
-
-  if (!NIL_P(options))
-  {
-    VALUE rencoding, rindent, rlevel;
-    Check_Type(options, T_HASH);
-    rencoding = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("encoding")));
-    rindent = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("indent")));
-    rlevel = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("level")));
-
-    if (rindent == Qfalse)
-      indent = 0;
-
-    if (rlevel != Qnil)
-      level = NUM2INT(rlevel);
-
-    if (rencoding != Qnil)
-    {
-      xencoding = xmlGetCharEncodingName((xmlCharEncoding)NUM2INT(rencoding));
-      if (!xencoding)
-        rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "Unknown encoding value: %d", NUM2INT(rencoding));
-    }
-  }
-
-  encodingHandler = xmlFindCharEncodingHandler(xencoding);
-  output = xmlAllocOutputBuffer(encodingHandler);
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xmlNodeDumpOutput(output, xnode->doc, xnode, level, indent, xencoding);
-  xmlOutputBufferFlush(output);
-
-  if (output->conv)
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) output->conv->content);
-  else
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) output->buffer->content);
-
-  xmlOutputBufferClose(output);
-  
-  return result;
-}
-
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.each -> XML::Node
- *
- * Iterates over this node's children, including text
- * nodes, element nodes, etc.  If you wish to iterate
- * only over child elements, use XML::Node#each_element.
- *
- *  doc = XML::Document.new('model/books.xml')
- *  doc.root.each {|node| puts node}
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_each(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlNodePtr xcurrent;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  xcurrent = xnode->children;
-
-  while (xcurrent)
-  {
-    /* The user could remove this node, so first stache
-       away the next node. */
-    xmlNodePtr xnext = xcurrent->next;
-
-    rb_yield(rxml_node_wrap(xcurrent));
-    xcurrent = xnext;
-  }
-  return Qnil;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.empty? -> (true|false)
- *
- * Determine whether this node is empty.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_empty_q(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  if (xnode == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-
-  return ((xmlIsBlankNode(xnode) == 1) ? Qtrue : Qfalse);
-}
-
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.eql?(other_node) => (true|false)
- *
- * Test equality between the two nodes. Two nodes are equal
- * if they are the same node or have the same XML representation.*/
-static VALUE rxml_node_eql_q(VALUE self, VALUE other)
-{
-if(self == other)
-{
-  return Qtrue;
-}
-else if (NIL_P(other))
-{
-  return Qfalse;
-}
-else
-{
-  VALUE self_xml;
-  VALUE other_xml;
-
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(other, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
-  rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Nodes can only be compared against other nodes");
-
-  self_xml = rxml_node_to_s(0, NULL, self);
-  other_xml = rxml_node_to_s(0, NULL, other);
-  return(rb_funcall(self_xml, rb_intern("=="), 1, other_xml));
-}
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.lang -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain the language set for this node, if any.
- * This is set in XML via the xml:lang attribute.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_lang_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlChar *lang;
-  VALUE result = Qnil;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  lang = xmlNodeGetLang(xnode);
-
-  if (lang)
-  {
-    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) lang);
-    xmlFree(lang);
-  }
-
-  return (result);
-}
-
-// TODO node_lang_set should support setting back to nil
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.lang = "string"
- *
- * Set the language for this node. This affects the value
- * of the xml:lang attribute.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_lang_set(VALUE self, VALUE lang)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Check_Type(lang, T_STRING);
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xmlNodeSetLang(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(lang));
-
-  return (Qtrue);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.last -> XML::Node
- *
- * Obtain the last child node of this node, if any.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_last_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (xnode->last)
-    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->last));
-  else
-    return (Qnil);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.line_num -> num
- *
- * Obtain the line number (in the XML document) that this
- * node was read from. If +default_line_numbers+ is set
- * false (the default), this method returns zero.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_line_num(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  long line_num;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (!xmlLineNumbersDefaultValue)
-    rb_warn(
-        "Line numbers were not retained: use XML::Parser::default_line_numbers=true");
-
-  line_num = xmlGetLineNo(xnode);
-  if (line_num == -1)
-    return (Qnil);
-  else
-    return (INT2NUM((long) line_num));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.xlink? -> (true|false)
- *
- * Determine whether this node is an xlink node.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_q(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xlinkType xlt;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
-
-  if (xlt == XLINK_TYPE_NONE)
-    return (Qfalse);
-  else
-    return (Qtrue);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.xlink_type -> num
- *
- * Obtain the type identifier for this xlink, if applicable.
- * If this is not an xlink node (see +xlink?+), will return
- * nil.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_type(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xlinkType xlt;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
-
-  if (xlt == XLINK_TYPE_NONE)
-    return (Qnil);
-  else
-    return (INT2NUM(xlt));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.xlink_type_name -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain the type name for this xlink, if applicable.
- * If this is not an xlink node (see +xlink?+), will return
- * nil.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_type_name(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xlinkType xlt;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
-
-  switch (xlt)
-  {
-  case XLINK_TYPE_NONE:
-    return (Qnil);
-  case XLINK_TYPE_SIMPLE:
-    return (rb_str_new2("simple"));
-  case XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED:
-    return (rb_str_new2("extended"));
-  case XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED_SET:
-    return (rb_str_new2("extended_set"));
-  default:
-    rb_fatal("Unknowng xlink type, %d", xlt);
-  }
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.name -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain this node's name.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_name_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  const xmlChar *name;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  switch (xnode->type)
-  {
-  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
-    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#endif
-  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-  {
-    xmlDocPtr doc = (xmlDocPtr) xnode;
-    name = doc->URL;
-    break;
-  }
-  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-  {
-    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
-    name = attr->name;
-    break;
-  }
-  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
-  {
-    xmlNsPtr ns = (xmlNsPtr) xnode;
-    name = ns->prefix;
-    break;
-  }
-  default:
-    name = xnode->name;
-    break;
-  }
-
-  if (xnode->name == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-  else
-    return (rb_str_new2((const char*) name));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.name = "string"
- *
- * Set this node's name.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_name_set(VALUE self, VALUE name)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  const xmlChar *xname;
-
-  Check_Type(name, T_STRING);
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  xname = (const xmlChar*)StringValuePtr(name);
-
-	/* Note: calling xmlNodeSetName() for a text node is ignored by libXML. */
-  xmlNodeSetName(xnode, xname);
-
-  return (Qtrue);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.next -> XML::Node
- *
- * Obtain the next sibling node, if any.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_next_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (xnode->next)
-    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->next));
-  else
-    return (Qnil);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.next = node
- *
- * Insert the specified node as this node's next sibling.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_next_set(VALUE self, VALUE next)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode, xnext, xresult;
-
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(next, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
-    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  Data_Get_Struct(next, xmlNode, xnext);
-
-  xresult = xmlAddNextSibling(xnode, xnext);
-  if (xresult == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.parent -> XML::Node
- *
- * Obtain this node's parent node, if any.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_parent_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (xnode->parent)
-    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->parent));
-  else
-    return (Qnil);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.path -> path
- *
- * Obtain this node's path.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_path(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlChar *path;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  path = xmlGetNodePath(xnode);
-
-  if (path == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-  else
-    return (rb_str_new2((const char*) path));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.pointer -> XML::NodeSet
- *
- * Evaluates an XPointer expression relative to this node.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_pointer(VALUE self, VALUE xptr_str)
-{
-  return (rxml_xpointer_point2(self, xptr_str));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.prev -> XML::Node
- *
- * Obtain the previous sibling, if any.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_prev_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlNodePtr node;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  switch (xnode->type)
-  {
-  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
-    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-#endif
-  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
-  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
-    node = NULL;
-    break;
-  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-  {
-    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
-    node = (xmlNodePtr) attr->prev;
-  }
-    break;
-  default:
-    node = xnode->prev;
-    break;
-  }
-
-  if (node == NULL)
-    return (Qnil);
-  else
-    return (rxml_node_wrap(node));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.prev = node
- *
- * Insert the specified node as this node's previous sibling.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_prev_set(VALUE self, VALUE prev)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode, xprev, xresult;
-
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(prev, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
-    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  Data_Get_Struct(prev, xmlNode, xprev);
-
-  xresult = xmlAddPrevSibling(xnode, xprev);
-  if (xresult == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.attributes -> attributes
- *
- * Returns the XML::Attributes for this node.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_attributes_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  return rxml_attributes_new(xnode);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.property("name") -> "string"
- *    node["name"]          -> "string"
- *
- * Obtain the named pyroperty.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_attribute_get(VALUE self, VALUE name)
-{
-  VALUE attributes = rxml_node_attributes_get(self);
-  return rxml_attributes_attribute_get(attributes, name);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node["name"] = "string"
- *
- * Set the named property.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_property_set(VALUE self, VALUE name, VALUE value)
-{
-  VALUE attributes = rxml_node_attributes_get(self);
-  return rxml_attributes_attribute_set(attributes, name, value);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.remove! -> node
- *
- * Removes this node and its children from its
- * document tree by setting its document,
- * parent and siblings to nil.  You can add
- * the returned node back into a document.
- * Otherwise, the node will be freed once
- * any references to it go out of scope. */
-
-static VALUE rxml_node_remove_ex(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  /* Unlink the node from its parent. */
-  xmlUnlinkNode(xnode);
-
-  /* Now set the nodes parent to nil so it can
-   be freed if the reference to it goes out of scope*/
-  xmlSetTreeDoc(xnode, NULL);
-
-  /* Now return the removed node so the user can
-   do something wiht it.*/
-  return self;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.sibling(node) -> XML::Node
- *
- * Add the specified node as a sibling of this node.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_sibling_set(VALUE self, VALUE sibling)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode, xsibling, xresult;
-
-  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(sibling, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
-    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  Data_Get_Struct(sibling, xmlNode, xsibling);
-
-  xresult = xmlAddSibling(xnode, xsibling);
-  if (xresult == NULL)
-    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
-
-  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    text_node.output_escaping?      -> (true|false)
- *    element_node.output_escaping?   -> (true|false|nil)
- *    attribute_node.output_escaping? -> (true|false|nil)
- *    other_node.output_escaping?     -> (nil)
- *
- * Determine whether this node escapes it's output or not.
- *
- * Text nodes return only +true+ or +false+.  Element and attribute nodes
- * examine their immediate text node children to determine the value.
- * Any other type of node always returns +nil+.
- *
- * If an element or attribute node has at least one immediate child text node 
- * and all the immediate text node children have the same +output_escaping?+
- * value, that value is returned.  Otherwise, +nil+ is returned.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_output_escaping_q(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  switch (xnode->type) {
-  case XML_TEXT_NODE:
-    return xnode->name==xmlStringTextNoenc ? Qfalse : Qtrue;
-  case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
-  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-    {
-      xmlNodePtr tmp = xnode->children;
-      const xmlChar *match = NULL;
-
-      /* Find the first text node and use it as the reference. */
-      while (tmp && tmp->type != XML_TEXT_NODE)
-        tmp = tmp->next;
-      if (! tmp)
-        return Qnil;
-      match = tmp->name;
-
-      /* Walk the remaining text nodes until we run out or one doesn't match. */
-      while (tmp && (tmp->type != XML_TEXT_NODE || match == tmp->name))
-        tmp = tmp->next;
-
-      /* We're left with either the mismatched node or the aggregate result. */
-      return tmp ? Qnil : (match==xmlStringTextNoenc ? Qfalse : Qtrue);
-    }
-    break;
-  default:
-    return Qnil;
-  }
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    text_node.output_escaping = true|false
- *    element_node.output_escaping = true|false
- *    attribute_node.output_escaping = true|false
- *
- * Controls whether this text node or the immediate text node children of an
- * element or attribute node escapes their output.  Any other type of node
- * will simply ignore this operation.
- *
- * Text nodes which are added to an element or attribute node will be affected
- * by any previous setting of this property.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_output_escaping_set(VALUE self, VALUE bool)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  switch (xnode->type) {
-  case XML_TEXT_NODE:
-    xnode->name = (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? xmlStringText : xmlStringTextNoenc;
-    break;
-  case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
-  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-    {
-      const xmlChar *name = (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? xmlStringText : xmlStringTextNoenc;
-      xmlNodePtr tmp;
-      for (tmp = xnode->children; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
-        if (tmp->type == XML_TEXT_NODE)
-          tmp->name = name;
-    }
-    break;
-  default:
-    return Qnil;
-  }
-
-  return (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? Qtrue : Qfalse;
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.space_preserve -> (true|false)
- *
- * Determine whether this node preserves whitespace.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_space_preserve_get(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  return (INT2NUM(xmlNodeGetSpacePreserve(xnode)));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.space_preserve = true|false
- *
- * Control whether this node preserves whitespace.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_space_preserve_set(VALUE self, VALUE bool)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  if (TYPE(bool) == T_FALSE)
-    xmlNodeSetSpacePreserve(xnode, 1);
-  else
-    xmlNodeSetSpacePreserve(xnode, 0);
-
-  return (Qnil);
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.type -> num
- *
- * Obtain this node's type identifier.
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_type(VALUE self)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-  return (INT2NUM(xnode->type));
-}
-
-/*
- * call-seq:
- *    node.copy -> XML::Node
- *
- * Creates a copy of this node.  To create a
- * shallow copy set the deep parameter to false.
- * To create a deep copy set the deep parameter
- * to true.
- *
- */
-static VALUE rxml_node_copy(VALUE self, VALUE deep)
-{
-  xmlNodePtr xnode;
-  xmlNodePtr xcopy;
-  int recursive = (deep == Qnil || deep == Qfalse) ? 0 : 1;
-  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
-
-  xcopy = xmlCopyNode(xnode, recursive);
-
-  if (xcopy)
-    return rxml_node_wrap(xcopy);
-  else
-    return Qnil;
-}
-
-void rxml_init_node(void)
-{
-  xmlDeregisterNodeDefault(rxml_node_deregisterNode);
-
-  cXMLNode = rb_define_class_under(mXML, "Node", rb_cObject);
-
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_DEFAULT", INT2NUM(0));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_PRESERVE", INT2NUM(1));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_NOT_INHERIT", INT2NUM(-1));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_AUTO", INT2NUM(1));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_ONREQUEST", INT2NUM(2));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_EMBED", INT2NUM(2));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_NEW", INT2NUM(1));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_REPLACE", INT2NUM(3));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED", INT2NUM(2));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED_SET", INT2NUM(3));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_SIMPLE", INT2NUM(1));
-
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ELEMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ELEMENT_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ATTRIBUTE_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "TEXT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_TEXT_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "CDATA_SECTION_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_REF_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "PI_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_PI_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "COMMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_COMMENT_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "NOTATION_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_NOTATION_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DTD_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DTD_NODE));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ELEMENT_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ELEMENT_DECL));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ATTRIBUTE_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ATTRIBUTE_DECL));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_DECL));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "NAMESPACE_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_NAMESPACE_DECL));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XINCLUDE_START", INT2FIX(XML_XINCLUDE_START));
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XINCLUDE_END", INT2FIX(XML_XINCLUDE_END));
-
-#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE));
-#else
-  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE", Qnil);
-#endif
-
-  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_cdata", rxml_node_new_cdata, -1);
-  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_comment", rxml_node_new_comment, -1);
-  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_text", rxml_node_new_text, 1);
-
-  /* Initialization */
-  rb_define_alloc_func(cXMLNode, rxml_node_alloc);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "initialize", rxml_node_initialize, -1);
-
-  /* Traversal */
-  rb_include_module(cXMLNode, rb_mEnumerable);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "[]", rxml_node_attribute_get, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "each", rxml_node_each, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "first", rxml_node_first_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "last", rxml_node_last_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "next", rxml_node_next_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "parent", rxml_node_parent_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "prev", rxml_node_prev_get, 0);
-
-  /* Modification */
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "<<", rxml_node_content_add, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "[]=", rxml_node_property_set, 2);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "child_add", rxml_node_child_add, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "child=", rxml_node_child_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "sibling=", rxml_node_sibling_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "next=", rxml_node_next_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "prev=", rxml_node_prev_set, 1);
-
-  /* Rest of the node api */
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "attributes", rxml_node_attributes_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "base_uri", rxml_node_base_uri_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "base_uri=", rxml_node_base_uri_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "blank?", rxml_node_empty_q, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "copy", rxml_node_copy, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content", rxml_node_content_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content=", rxml_node_content_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content_stripped", rxml_node_content_stripped_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "debug", rxml_node_debug, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "doc", rxml_node_doc, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "empty?", rxml_node_empty_q, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "eql?", rxml_node_eql_q, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "lang", rxml_node_lang_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "lang=", rxml_node_lang_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "line_num", rxml_node_line_num, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "name", rxml_node_name_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "name=", rxml_node_name_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "node_type", rxml_node_type, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "output_escaping?", rxml_node_output_escaping_q, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "output_escaping=", rxml_node_output_escaping_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "path", rxml_node_path, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "pointer", rxml_node_pointer, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "remove!", rxml_node_remove_ex, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "space_preserve", rxml_node_space_preserve_get, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "space_preserve=", rxml_node_space_preserve_set, 1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "to_s", rxml_node_to_s, -1);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink?", rxml_node_xlink_q, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink_type", rxml_node_xlink_type, 0);
-  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink_type_name", rxml_node_xlink_type_name, 0);
-
-  rb_define_alias(cXMLNode, "==", "eql?");
-}
+#include "ruby_libxml.h"
+#include "ruby_xml_node.h"
+
+VALUE cXMLNode;
+
+/* Document-class: LibXML::XML::Node
+ *
+ * Nodes are the primary objects that make up an XML document.
+ * The node class represents most node types that are found in
+ * an XML document (but not Attributes, see LibXML::XML::Attribute).
+ * It exposes libxml's full API for creating, querying
+ * moving and deleting node objects.  Many of these methods are
+ * documented in the DOM Level 3 specification found at:
+ * http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/. */
+
+static VALUE rxml_node_content_set(VALUE self, VALUE content);
+
+VALUE check_string_or_symbol(VALUE val)
+{
+  if (TYPE(val) != T_STRING && TYPE(val) != T_SYMBOL)
+  {
+    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError,
+        "wrong argument type %s (expected String or Symbol)", rb_obj_classname(
+            val));
+  }
+  return rb_obj_as_string(val);
+}
+
+/* Memory management:
+ *
+ * The bindings create a one-to-one mapping between libxml nodes
+ * and Ruby nodes.  If a libxml node is wraped, its _private member
+ * is set with a reference to the Ruby object.
+ *
+ * When a libxml document or top level node is freed, it will free
+ * all its children.  Thus Ruby is responsible for:
+ *
+ *  * Using the mark function to keep alive any documents Ruby is
+ *    referencing via the document or child nodes.
+ *  * Using the mark function to keep alive any top level, free
+ *    standing nodes Ruby is referencing via the node or its children.
+ *
+ * Ruby will always set a free function when wrapping a node.  However,
+ * the bindings also register a callback that is invoked by libxml
+ * each time a node is freed.  When the callback is called, the node's
+ * dfree member is set to NULL since Ruby no longer should free the node.
+ */
+
+void rxml_node_deregisterNode(xmlNodePtr xnode)
+{
+  /* Has the node been wrapped and exposed to Ruby? */
+  if (xnode->_private)
+  {
+    /* Node was wrapped.  Set the _private member to free and
+      then dislabe the dfree function so that Ruby will not
+      try to free the node a second time. */
+    VALUE node = (VALUE) xnode->_private;
+    RDATA(node)->dfree = NULL;
+    xnode->_private = NULL;
+  }
+}
+
+void rxml_node_free(xmlNodePtr xnode)
+{
+  /* The Ruby object that wraps the node no longer exists. */
+  xnode->_private = NULL;
+
+  /* Only free nodes that are stand-alone, top level nodes.
+     If a node belongs to a document, or a parent node, then
+     the document or parent node will free thsi node. */
+  if (xnode->doc == NULL && xnode->parent == NULL)
+    xmlFreeNode(xnode);
+}
+
+void rxml_node_mark_common(xmlNodePtr xnode)
+{
+  if (xnode->parent == NULL)
+    return;
+
+  if (xnode->doc != NULL)
+  {
+    if (xnode->doc->_private == NULL)
+      rb_bug("XmlNode Doc is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__,__LINE__);
+    rb_gc_mark((VALUE) xnode->doc->_private);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    while (xnode->parent != NULL)
+      xnode = xnode->parent;
+
+    if (xnode->_private == NULL)
+      rb_warning("XmlNode Root Parent is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__,__LINE__);
+    else
+      rb_gc_mark((VALUE) xnode->_private);
+  }
+}
+
+void rxml_node_mark(xmlNodePtr xnode)
+{
+  if (xnode == NULL)
+    return;
+
+  if (xnode->_private == NULL)
+  {
+    rb_warning("XmlNode is not bound! (%s:%d)", __FILE__, __LINE__);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  rxml_node_mark_common(xnode);
+}
+
+VALUE rxml_node_wrap(xmlNodePtr xnode)
+{
+  /* Is the node already wrapped? */
+  if (xnode->_private != NULL)
+  {
+    return (VALUE) xnode->_private;
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    /* Assume Ruby is responsible for freeing this node.  If libxml frees it
+       instead, the rxml_node_deregisterNode callback is executed, and
+       we set the free function to NULL. */
+    VALUE node = Data_Wrap_Struct(cXMLNode, rxml_node_mark, rxml_node_free, xnode);
+    xnode->_private = (void*) node;
+    return node;
+  }
+}
+
+static VALUE rxml_node_alloc(VALUE klass)
+{
+  /* Ruby is responsible for freeing this node not libxml. */
+  return Data_Wrap_Struct(klass, rxml_node_mark, rxml_node_free, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    XML::Node.new_cdata(content = nil) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Create a new #CDATA node, optionally setting
+ * the node's content.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_new_cdata(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
+{
+  VALUE content = Qnil;
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &content);
+
+  if (NIL_P(content))
+  {
+    xnode = xmlNewCDataBlock(NULL, NULL, 0);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
+    xnode = xmlNewCDataBlock(NULL, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(content),
+        RSTRING_LEN(content));
+  }
+
+  if (xnode == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    XML::Node.new_comment(content = nil) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Create a new comment node, optionally setting
+ * the node's content.
+ *
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_new_comment(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
+{
+  VALUE content = Qnil;
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &content);
+
+  if (NIL_P(content))
+  {
+    xnode = xmlNewComment(NULL);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
+    xnode = xmlNewComment((xmlChar*) StringValueCStr(content));
+  }
+
+  if (xnode == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    XML::Node.new_text(content) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Create a new text node.
+ *
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_new_text(VALUE klass, VALUE content)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Check_Type(content, T_STRING);
+  content = rb_obj_as_string(content);
+
+  xnode = xmlNewText((xmlChar*) StringValueCStr(content));
+
+  if (xnode == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    XML::Node.initialize(name, content = nil, namespace = nil) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Creates a new element with the specified name, content and
+ * namespace. The content and namespace may be nil.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
+{
+  VALUE name;
+  VALUE content;
+  VALUE ns;
+  xmlNodePtr xnode = NULL;
+  xmlNsPtr xns = NULL;
+
+  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "12", &name, &content, &ns);
+
+  name = check_string_or_symbol(name);
+
+  if (!NIL_P(ns))
+    Data_Get_Struct(ns, xmlNs, xns);
+
+  xnode = xmlNewNode(xns, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(name));
+  xnode->_private = (void*) self;
+  DATA_PTR( self) = xnode;
+
+  if (!NIL_P(content))
+    rxml_node_content_set(self, content);
+
+  return self;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.base_uri -> "uri"
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's base URI.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_base_uri_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlChar* base_uri;
+  VALUE result = Qnil;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (xnode->doc == NULL)
+    return (result);
+
+  base_uri = xmlNodeGetBase(xnode->doc, xnode);
+  if (base_uri)
+  {
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) base_uri);
+    xmlFree(base_uri);
+  }
+
+  return (result);
+}
+
+// TODO node_base_set should support setting back to nil
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.base_uri = "uri"
+ *
+ * Set this node's base URI.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_base_uri_set(VALUE self, VALUE uri)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Check_Type(uri, T_STRING);
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  if (xnode->doc == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+
+  xmlNodeSetBase(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(uri));
+  return (Qtrue);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.content -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's content as a string.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_content_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlChar *content;
+  VALUE result = Qnil;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  content = xmlNodeGetContent(xnode);
+  if (content)
+  {
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char *) content);
+    xmlFree(content);
+  }
+
+  return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.content = "string"
+ *
+ * Set this node's content to the specified string.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_content_set(VALUE self, VALUE content)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Check_Type(content, T_STRING);
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  // XXX docs indicate need for escaping entites, need to be done? danj
+  xmlNodeSetContent(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(content));
+  return (Qtrue);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.content_stripped -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's stripped content.
+ *
+ * *Deprecated*: Stripped content can be obtained via the
+ * +content+ method.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_content_stripped_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlChar* content;
+  VALUE result = Qnil;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (!xnode->content)
+    return result;
+
+  content = xmlNodeGetContent(xnode);
+  if (content)
+  {
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) content);
+    xmlFree(content);
+  }
+  return (result);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.debug -> true|false
+ *
+ * Print libxml debugging information to stdout.
+ * Requires that libxml was compiled with debugging enabled.
+*/
+static VALUE rxml_node_debug(VALUE self)
+{
+#ifdef LIBXML_DEBUG_ENABLED
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xmlDebugDumpNode(NULL, xnode, 2);
+  return Qtrue;
+#else
+  rb_warn("libxml was compiled without debugging support.")
+  return Qfalse;
+#endif
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.first -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Returns this node's first child node if any.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_first_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (xnode->children)
+    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->children));
+  else
+    return (Qnil);
+}
+
+/*
+ * underlying for child_set and child_add, difference being
+ * former raises on implicit copy, latter does not.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_child_set_aux(VALUE self, VALUE child)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode, xchild, xresult;
+
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(child, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
+    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  Data_Get_Struct(child, xmlNode, xchild);
+
+  if (xchild->parent != NULL || xchild->doc != NULL)
+    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError,
+            "Cannot move a node from one document to another with child= or <<.  First copy the node before moving it.");
+
+  xresult = xmlAddChild(xnode, xchild);
+
+  if (!xresult)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.child = node
+ *
+ * Set a child node for this node. Also called for <<
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_child_set(VALUE self, VALUE rnode)
+{
+  return rxml_node_child_set_aux(self, rnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node << ("string" | node) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Add the specified string or XML::Node to this node's
+ * content.  The returned node is the node that was
+ * added and not self, thereby allowing << calls to
+ * be chained.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_content_add(VALUE self, VALUE obj)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  VALUE str;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  /* XXX This should only be legal for a CDATA type node, I think,
+   * resulting in a merge of content, as if a string were passed
+   * danj 070827
+   */
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(obj, cXMLNode))
+  {
+    rxml_node_child_set(self, obj);
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    str = rb_obj_as_string(obj);
+    if (NIL_P(str) || TYPE(str) != T_STRING)
+      rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "invalid argument: must be string or XML::Node");
+
+    xmlNodeAddContent(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(str));
+  }
+  return (self);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.child_add(node)
+ *
+ * Set a child node for this node.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_child_add(VALUE self, VALUE rnode)
+{
+  return rxml_node_child_set_aux(self, rnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.doc -> document
+ *
+ * Obtain the XML::Document this node belongs to.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_doc(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlDocPtr doc = NULL;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  switch (xnode->type)
+  {
+  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
+    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#endif
+  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+    doc = NULL;
+    break;
+  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+  {
+    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
+    doc = attr->doc;
+    break;
+  }
+  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
+    doc = NULL;
+    break;
+  default:
+    doc = xnode->doc;
+    break;
+  }
+
+  if (doc == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+
+  if (doc->_private == NULL)
+    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "existing document object has no ruby-instance");
+
+  return (VALUE) doc->_private;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.to_s -> "string"
+ *    node.to_s(:indent => true, :encoding => 'UTF-8', :level => 0) -> "string"
+ *
+ * Converts a node, and all of its children, to a string representation.
+ * You may provide an optional hash table to control how the string is 
+ * generated.  Valid options are:
+ * 
+ * :indent - Specifies if the string should be indented.  The default value
+ * is true.  Note that indentation is only added if both :indent is
+ * true and XML.indent_tree_output is true.  If :indent is set to false,
+ * then both indentation and line feeds are removed from the result.
+ *
+ * :level  - Specifies the indentation level.  The amount of indentation
+ * is equal to the (level * number_spaces) + number_spaces, where libxml
+ * defaults the number of spaces to 2.  Thus a level of 0 results in
+ * 2 spaces, level 1 results in 4 spaces, level 2 results in 6 spaces, etc.
+ *
+ * :encoding - Specifies the output encoding of the string.  It
+ * defaults to XML::Encoding::UTF8.  To change it, use one of the
+ * XML::Encoding encoding constants. */
+
+static VALUE rxml_node_to_s(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
+{
+  VALUE result = Qnil;
+  VALUE options = Qnil;
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlCharEncodingHandlerPtr encodingHandler;
+  xmlOutputBufferPtr output;
+
+  int level = 0;
+  int indent = 1;
+  const char *xencoding = NULL;
+
+  rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &options);
+
+  if (!NIL_P(options))
+  {
+    VALUE rencoding, rindent, rlevel;
+    Check_Type(options, T_HASH);
+    rencoding = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("encoding")));
+    rindent = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("indent")));
+    rlevel = rb_hash_aref(options, ID2SYM(rb_intern("level")));
+
+    if (rindent == Qfalse)
+      indent = 0;
+
+    if (rlevel != Qnil)
+      level = NUM2INT(rlevel);
+
+    if (rencoding != Qnil)
+    {
+      xencoding = xmlGetCharEncodingName((xmlCharEncoding)NUM2INT(rencoding));
+      if (!xencoding)
+        rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "Unknown encoding value: %d", NUM2INT(rencoding));
+    }
+  }
+
+  encodingHandler = xmlFindCharEncodingHandler(xencoding);
+  output = xmlAllocOutputBuffer(encodingHandler);
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xmlNodeDumpOutput(output, xnode->doc, xnode, level, indent, xencoding);
+  xmlOutputBufferFlush(output);
+
+  if (output->conv)
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) output->conv->content);
+  else
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) output->buffer->content);
+
+  xmlOutputBufferClose(output);
+  
+  return result;
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.each -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Iterates over this node's children, including text
+ * nodes, element nodes, etc.  If you wish to iterate
+ * only over child elements, use XML::Node#each_element.
+ *
+ *  doc = XML::Document.new('model/books.xml')
+ *  doc.root.each {|node| puts node}
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_each(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlNodePtr xcurrent;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  xcurrent = xnode->children;
+
+  while (xcurrent)
+  {
+    /* The user could remove this node, so first stache
+       away the next node. */
+    xmlNodePtr xnext = xcurrent->next;
+
+    rb_yield(rxml_node_wrap(xcurrent));
+    xcurrent = xnext;
+  }
+  return Qnil;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.empty? -> (true|false)
+ *
+ * Determine whether this node is empty.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_empty_q(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  if (xnode == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+
+  return ((xmlIsBlankNode(xnode) == 1) ? Qtrue : Qfalse);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.eql?(other_node) => (true|false)
+ *
+ * Test equality between the two nodes. Two nodes are equal
+ * if they are the same node or have the same XML representation.*/
+static VALUE rxml_node_eql_q(VALUE self, VALUE other)
+{
+if(self == other)
+{
+  return Qtrue;
+}
+else if (NIL_P(other))
+{
+  return Qfalse;
+}
+else
+{
+  VALUE self_xml;
+  VALUE other_xml;
+
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(other, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
+  rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Nodes can only be compared against other nodes");
+
+  self_xml = rxml_node_to_s(0, NULL, self);
+  other_xml = rxml_node_to_s(0, NULL, other);
+  return(rb_funcall(self_xml, rb_intern("=="), 1, other_xml));
+}
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.lang -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain the language set for this node, if any.
+ * This is set in XML via the xml:lang attribute.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_lang_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlChar *lang;
+  VALUE result = Qnil;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  lang = xmlNodeGetLang(xnode);
+
+  if (lang)
+  {
+    result = rb_str_new2((const char*) lang);
+    xmlFree(lang);
+  }
+
+  return (result);
+}
+
+// TODO node_lang_set should support setting back to nil
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.lang = "string"
+ *
+ * Set the language for this node. This affects the value
+ * of the xml:lang attribute.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_lang_set(VALUE self, VALUE lang)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Check_Type(lang, T_STRING);
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xmlNodeSetLang(xnode, (xmlChar*) StringValuePtr(lang));
+
+  return (Qtrue);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.last -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Obtain the last child node of this node, if any.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_last_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (xnode->last)
+    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->last));
+  else
+    return (Qnil);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.line_num -> num
+ *
+ * Obtain the line number (in the XML document) that this
+ * node was read from. If +default_line_numbers+ is set
+ * false (the default), this method returns zero.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_line_num(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  long line_num;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (!xmlLineNumbersDefaultValue)
+    rb_warn(
+        "Line numbers were not retained: use XML::Parser::default_line_numbers=true");
+
+  line_num = xmlGetLineNo(xnode);
+  if (line_num == -1)
+    return (Qnil);
+  else
+    return (INT2NUM((long) line_num));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.xlink? -> (true|false)
+ *
+ * Determine whether this node is an xlink node.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_q(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xlinkType xlt;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
+
+  if (xlt == XLINK_TYPE_NONE)
+    return (Qfalse);
+  else
+    return (Qtrue);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.xlink_type -> num
+ *
+ * Obtain the type identifier for this xlink, if applicable.
+ * If this is not an xlink node (see +xlink?+), will return
+ * nil.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_type(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xlinkType xlt;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
+
+  if (xlt == XLINK_TYPE_NONE)
+    return (Qnil);
+  else
+    return (INT2NUM(xlt));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.xlink_type_name -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain the type name for this xlink, if applicable.
+ * If this is not an xlink node (see +xlink?+), will return
+ * nil.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_xlink_type_name(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xlinkType xlt;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xlt = xlinkIsLink(xnode->doc, xnode);
+
+  switch (xlt)
+  {
+  case XLINK_TYPE_NONE:
+    return (Qnil);
+  case XLINK_TYPE_SIMPLE:
+    return (rb_str_new2("simple"));
+  case XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED:
+    return (rb_str_new2("extended"));
+  case XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED_SET:
+    return (rb_str_new2("extended_set"));
+  default:
+    rb_fatal("Unknowng xlink type, %d", xlt);
+  }
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.name -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's name.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_name_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  const xmlChar *name;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  switch (xnode->type)
+  {
+  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
+    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#endif
+  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+  {
+    xmlDocPtr doc = (xmlDocPtr) xnode;
+    name = doc->URL;
+    break;
+  }
+  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+  {
+    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
+    name = attr->name;
+    break;
+  }
+  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
+  {
+    xmlNsPtr ns = (xmlNsPtr) xnode;
+    name = ns->prefix;
+    break;
+  }
+  default:
+    name = xnode->name;
+    break;
+  }
+
+  if (xnode->name == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+  else
+    return (rb_str_new2((const char*) name));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.name = "string"
+ *
+ * Set this node's name.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_name_set(VALUE self, VALUE name)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  const xmlChar *xname;
+
+  Check_Type(name, T_STRING);
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  xname = (const xmlChar*)StringValuePtr(name);
+
+	/* Note: calling xmlNodeSetName() for a text node is ignored by libXML. */
+  xmlNodeSetName(xnode, xname);
+
+  return (Qtrue);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.next -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Obtain the next sibling node, if any.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_next_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (xnode->next)
+    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->next));
+  else
+    return (Qnil);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.next = node
+ *
+ * Insert the specified node as this node's next sibling.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_next_set(VALUE self, VALUE next)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode, xnext, xresult;
+
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(next, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
+    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  Data_Get_Struct(next, xmlNode, xnext);
+
+  xresult = xmlAddNextSibling(xnode, xnext);
+  if (xresult == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.parent -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's parent node, if any.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_parent_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (xnode->parent)
+    return (rxml_node_wrap(xnode->parent));
+  else
+    return (Qnil);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.path -> path
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's path.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_path(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlChar *path;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  path = xmlGetNodePath(xnode);
+
+  if (path == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+  else
+    return (rb_str_new2((const char*) path));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.pointer -> XML::NodeSet
+ *
+ * Evaluates an XPointer expression relative to this node.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_pointer(VALUE self, VALUE xptr_str)
+{
+  return (rxml_xpointer_point2(self, xptr_str));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.prev -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Obtain the previous sibling, if any.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_prev_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlNodePtr node;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  switch (xnode->type)
+  {
+  case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
+    case XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+#endif
+  case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
+  case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
+    node = NULL;
+    break;
+  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+  {
+    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) xnode;
+    node = (xmlNodePtr) attr->prev;
+  }
+    break;
+  default:
+    node = xnode->prev;
+    break;
+  }
+
+  if (node == NULL)
+    return (Qnil);
+  else
+    return (rxml_node_wrap(node));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.prev = node
+ *
+ * Insert the specified node as this node's previous sibling.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_prev_set(VALUE self, VALUE prev)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode, xprev, xresult;
+
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(prev, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
+    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  Data_Get_Struct(prev, xmlNode, xprev);
+
+  xresult = xmlAddPrevSibling(xnode, xprev);
+  if (xresult == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.attributes -> attributes
+ *
+ * Returns the XML::Attributes for this node.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_attributes_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  return rxml_attributes_new(xnode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.property("name") -> "string"
+ *    node["name"]          -> "string"
+ *
+ * Obtain the named pyroperty.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_attribute_get(VALUE self, VALUE name)
+{
+  VALUE attributes = rxml_node_attributes_get(self);
+  return rxml_attributes_attribute_get(attributes, name);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node["name"] = "string"
+ *
+ * Set the named property.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_property_set(VALUE self, VALUE name, VALUE value)
+{
+  VALUE attributes = rxml_node_attributes_get(self);
+  return rxml_attributes_attribute_set(attributes, name, value);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.remove! -> node
+ *
+ * Removes this node and its children from its
+ * document tree by setting its document,
+ * parent and siblings to nil.  You can add
+ * the returned node back into a document.
+ * Otherwise, the node will be freed once
+ * any references to it go out of scope. */
+
+static VALUE rxml_node_remove_ex(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  /* Unlink the node from its parent. */
+  xmlUnlinkNode(xnode);
+
+  /* Now set the nodes parent to nil so it can
+   be freed if the reference to it goes out of scope*/
+  xmlSetTreeDoc(xnode, NULL);
+
+  /* Now return the removed node so the user can
+   do something wiht it.*/
+  return self;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.sibling(node) -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Add the specified node as a sibling of this node.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_sibling_set(VALUE self, VALUE sibling)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode, xsibling, xresult;
+
+  if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(sibling, cXMLNode) == Qfalse)
+    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "Must pass an XML::Node object");
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  Data_Get_Struct(sibling, xmlNode, xsibling);
+
+  xresult = xmlAddSibling(xnode, xsibling);
+  if (xresult == NULL)
+    rxml_raise(&xmlLastError);
+
+  return rxml_node_wrap(xresult);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    text_node.output_escaping?      -> (true|false)
+ *    element_node.output_escaping?   -> (true|false|nil)
+ *    attribute_node.output_escaping? -> (true|false|nil)
+ *    other_node.output_escaping?     -> (nil)
+ *
+ * Determine whether this node escapes it's output or not.
+ *
+ * Text nodes return only +true+ or +false+.  Element and attribute nodes
+ * examine their immediate text node children to determine the value.
+ * Any other type of node always returns +nil+.
+ *
+ * If an element or attribute node has at least one immediate child text node 
+ * and all the immediate text node children have the same +output_escaping?+
+ * value, that value is returned.  Otherwise, +nil+ is returned.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_output_escaping_q(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  switch (xnode->type) {
+  case XML_TEXT_NODE:
+    return xnode->name==xmlStringTextNoenc ? Qfalse : Qtrue;
+  case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
+  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+    {
+      xmlNodePtr tmp = xnode->children;
+      const xmlChar *match = NULL;
+
+      /* Find the first text node and use it as the reference. */
+      while (tmp && tmp->type != XML_TEXT_NODE)
+        tmp = tmp->next;
+      if (! tmp)
+        return Qnil;
+      match = tmp->name;
+
+      /* Walk the remaining text nodes until we run out or one doesn't match. */
+      while (tmp && (tmp->type != XML_TEXT_NODE || match == tmp->name))
+        tmp = tmp->next;
+
+      /* We're left with either the mismatched node or the aggregate result. */
+      return tmp ? Qnil : (match==xmlStringTextNoenc ? Qfalse : Qtrue);
+    }
+    break;
+  default:
+    return Qnil;
+  }
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    text_node.output_escaping = true|false
+ *    element_node.output_escaping = true|false
+ *    attribute_node.output_escaping = true|false
+ *
+ * Controls whether this text node or the immediate text node children of an
+ * element or attribute node escapes their output.  Any other type of node
+ * will simply ignore this operation.
+ *
+ * Text nodes which are added to an element or attribute node will be affected
+ * by any previous setting of this property.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_output_escaping_set(VALUE self, VALUE bool)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  switch (xnode->type) {
+  case XML_TEXT_NODE:
+    xnode->name = (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? xmlStringText : xmlStringTextNoenc;
+    break;
+  case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
+  case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+    {
+      const xmlChar *name = (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? xmlStringText : xmlStringTextNoenc;
+      xmlNodePtr tmp;
+      for (tmp = xnode->children; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
+        if (tmp->type == XML_TEXT_NODE)
+          tmp->name = name;
+    }
+    break;
+  default:
+    return Qnil;
+  }
+
+  return (bool!=Qfalse && bool!=Qnil) ? Qtrue : Qfalse;
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.space_preserve -> (true|false)
+ *
+ * Determine whether this node preserves whitespace.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_space_preserve_get(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  return (INT2NUM(xmlNodeGetSpacePreserve(xnode)));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.space_preserve = true|false
+ *
+ * Control whether this node preserves whitespace.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_space_preserve_set(VALUE self, VALUE bool)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  if (TYPE(bool) == T_FALSE)
+    xmlNodeSetSpacePreserve(xnode, 1);
+  else
+    xmlNodeSetSpacePreserve(xnode, 0);
+
+  return (Qnil);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.type -> num
+ *
+ * Obtain this node's type identifier.
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_type(VALUE self)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+  return (INT2NUM(xnode->type));
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *    node.copy -> XML::Node
+ *
+ * Creates a copy of this node.  To create a
+ * shallow copy set the deep parameter to false.
+ * To create a deep copy set the deep parameter
+ * to true.
+ *
+ */
+static VALUE rxml_node_copy(VALUE self, VALUE deep)
+{
+  xmlNodePtr xnode;
+  xmlNodePtr xcopy;
+  int recursive = (deep == Qnil || deep == Qfalse) ? 0 : 1;
+  Data_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, xnode);
+
+  xcopy = xmlCopyNode(xnode, recursive);
+
+  if (xcopy)
+    return rxml_node_wrap(xcopy);
+  else
+    return Qnil;
+}
+
+void rxml_init_node(void)
+{
+  xmlDeregisterNodeDefault(rxml_node_deregisterNode);
+
+  cXMLNode = rb_define_class_under(mXML, "Node", rb_cObject);
+
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_DEFAULT", INT2NUM(0));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_PRESERVE", INT2NUM(1));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "SPACE_NOT_INHERIT", INT2NUM(-1));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_AUTO", INT2NUM(1));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_ACTUATE_ONREQUEST", INT2NUM(2));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_EMBED", INT2NUM(2));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_NEW", INT2NUM(1));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_SHOW_REPLACE", INT2NUM(3));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED", INT2NUM(2));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_EXTENDED_SET", INT2NUM(3));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_NONE", INT2NUM(0));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XLINK_TYPE_SIMPLE", INT2NUM(1));
+
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ELEMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ELEMENT_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ATTRIBUTE_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "TEXT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_TEXT_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "CDATA_SECTION_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_REF_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "PI_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_PI_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "COMMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_COMMENT_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "NOTATION_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_NOTATION_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DTD_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DTD_NODE));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ELEMENT_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ELEMENT_DECL));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ATTRIBUTE_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ATTRIBUTE_DECL));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "ENTITY_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_ENTITY_DECL));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "NAMESPACE_DECL", INT2FIX(XML_NAMESPACE_DECL));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XINCLUDE_START", INT2FIX(XML_XINCLUDE_START));
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "XINCLUDE_END", INT2FIX(XML_XINCLUDE_END));
+
+#ifdef LIBXML_DOCB_ENABLED
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE", INT2FIX(XML_DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE));
+#else
+  rb_define_const(cXMLNode, "DOCB_DOCUMENT_NODE", Qnil);
+#endif
+
+  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_cdata", rxml_node_new_cdata, -1);
+  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_comment", rxml_node_new_comment, -1);
+  rb_define_singleton_method(cXMLNode, "new_text", rxml_node_new_text, 1);
+
+  /* Initialization */
+  rb_define_alloc_func(cXMLNode, rxml_node_alloc);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "initialize", rxml_node_initialize, -1);
+
+  /* Traversal */
+  rb_include_module(cXMLNode, rb_mEnumerable);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "[]", rxml_node_attribute_get, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "each", rxml_node_each, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "first", rxml_node_first_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "last", rxml_node_last_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "next", rxml_node_next_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "parent", rxml_node_parent_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "prev", rxml_node_prev_get, 0);
+
+  /* Modification */
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "<<", rxml_node_content_add, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "[]=", rxml_node_property_set, 2);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "child_add", rxml_node_child_add, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "child=", rxml_node_child_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "sibling=", rxml_node_sibling_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "next=", rxml_node_next_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "prev=", rxml_node_prev_set, 1);
+
+  /* Rest of the node api */
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "attributes", rxml_node_attributes_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "base_uri", rxml_node_base_uri_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "base_uri=", rxml_node_base_uri_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "blank?", rxml_node_empty_q, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "copy", rxml_node_copy, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content", rxml_node_content_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content=", rxml_node_content_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "content_stripped", rxml_node_content_stripped_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "debug", rxml_node_debug, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "doc", rxml_node_doc, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "empty?", rxml_node_empty_q, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "eql?", rxml_node_eql_q, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "lang", rxml_node_lang_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "lang=", rxml_node_lang_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "line_num", rxml_node_line_num, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "name", rxml_node_name_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "name=", rxml_node_name_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "node_type", rxml_node_type, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "output_escaping?", rxml_node_output_escaping_q, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "output_escaping=", rxml_node_output_escaping_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "path", rxml_node_path, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "pointer", rxml_node_pointer, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "remove!", rxml_node_remove_ex, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "space_preserve", rxml_node_space_preserve_get, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "space_preserve=", rxml_node_space_preserve_set, 1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "to_s", rxml_node_to_s, -1);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink?", rxml_node_xlink_q, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink_type", rxml_node_xlink_type, 0);
+  rb_define_method(cXMLNode, "xlink_type_name", rxml_node_xlink_type_name, 0);
+
+  rb_define_alias(cXMLNode, "==", "eql?");
+}