# HG changeset patch
# User cmlenz
# Date 1164304097 0
# Node ID e1d659c87ddfd270bb28f8025b07572dfbe77ec0
# Parent  873ca2a7ec05c7f5f0dc96eb4226128477ac2e48
The builder API now accepts streams as children of elements and fragments.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
  * `MarkupTemplate`s can now be instantiated from markup streams, in addition
    to strings and file-like objects (ticket #69).
  * Improve handling of incorrectly nested tags in the HTML parser.
+ * The builder API now accepts streams as children of elements and fragments.
 
 
 Version 0.3.5
diff --git a/genshi/builder.py b/genshi/builder.py
--- a/genshi/builder.py
+++ b/genshi/builder.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
     def append(self, node):
         """Append an element or string as child node."""
-        if isinstance(node, (Element, basestring, int, float, long)):
+        if isinstance(node, (Stream, Element, basestring, int, float, long)):
             # For objects of a known/primitive type, we avoid the check for
             # whether it is iterable for better performance
             self.children.append(node)
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@
             if isinstance(child, Fragment):
                 for event in child._generate():
                     yield event
+            elif isinstance(child, Stream):
+                for event in child:
+                    yield event
             else:
                 if not isinstance(child, basestring):
                     child = unicode(child)
diff --git a/genshi/tests/builder.py b/genshi/tests/builder.py
--- a/genshi/tests/builder.py
+++ b/genshi/tests/builder.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 from genshi.builder import Element, tag
 from genshi.core import Attrs, Stream
+from genshi.input import XML
 
 
 class ElementFactoryTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -41,6 +42,15 @@
                           (None, -1, -1)),
                          event)
 
+    def test_stream_as_child(self):
+        xml = list(tag.span(XML('<b>Foo</b>')).generate())
+        self.assertEqual(5, len(xml))
+        self.assertEqual((Stream.START, ('span', ()), (None, -1, -1)), xml[0])
+        self.assertEqual((Stream.START, ('b', ()), (None, 1, 0)), xml[1])
+        self.assertEqual((Stream.TEXT, 'Foo', (None, 1, 3)), xml[2])
+        self.assertEqual((Stream.END, 'b', (None, 1, 6)), xml[3])
+        self.assertEqual((Stream.END, 'span', (None, -1, -1)), xml[4])
+
 
 def suite():
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()