From: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold@kainhofer.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:59:17 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: MusicXML: Properly detect when a node is the lxml tree is a comment
X-Git-Tag: release/2.11.42-1~8
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9fca602defd316cc01cd3d421f9a65342ed76289;p=lilypond.git

MusicXML: Properly detect when a node is the lxml tree is a comment
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diff --git a/python/musicxml.py b/python/musicxml.py
index 7c398e1e5d..0e63c5ecdb 100644
--- a/python/musicxml.py
+++ b/python/musicxml.py
@@ -953,9 +953,8 @@ def get_class (name):
 def lxml_demarshal_node (node):
     name = node.tag
 
-    # TODO: This is a nasty hack, but I couldn't find any other way to check
-    #       if the given node is a comment node (class _Comment):
-    if name is None or re.match (u"^<!--.*-->$", node.__repr__()):
+    # Ignore comment nodes, which are also returned by the etree parser!
+    if name is None or node.__class__.__name__ == "_Comment":
         return None
     klass = get_class (name)
     py_node = klass()