From 9fca602defd316cc01cd3d421f9a65342ed76289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold@kainhofer.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:59:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MusicXML: Properly detect when a node is the lxml tree is a
 comment

---
 python/musicxml.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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()
-- 
2.39.5