(xml-get-attribute-or-nil): New function, like

xml-get-attribute, but returns nil if the attribute was not found.
(xml-get-attribute): Converted to defsubst, uses
xml-get-attribute-or-nil.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/xml.el b/lisp/xml.el
index a6159554b3f..b025a546a48 100644
--- a/lisp/xml.el
+++ b/lisp/xml.el
@@ -104,15 +104,24 @@ CHILD-NAME should be a lower case symbol."
               (push child match))))
     (nreverse match)))
 
-(defun xml-get-attribute (node attribute)
+(defun xml-get-attribute-or-nil (node attribute)
   "Get from NODE the value of ATTRIBUTE.
-An empty string is returned if the attribute was not found."
+nil is returned if the attribute was not found.
+
+See also `xml-get-attribute'."
   (if (xml-node-attributes node)
       (let ((value (assoc attribute (xml-node-attributes node))))
         (if value
             (cdr value)
-          ""))
-    ""))
+          nil))
+    nil))
+
+(defsubst xml-get-attribute (node attribute)
+  "Get from NODE the value of ATTRIBUTE.
+An empty string is returned if the attribute was not found.
+
+See also `xml-get-attribute-or-nil'."
+  (or (xml-get-attribute-or-nil node attribute) ""))
 
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