From dc37ff50368f30742f422ea15d6373df67bcb13e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: StudebakerGuy <>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 18:44:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Comments before first emlement not being captured

The xml library was not correctly detect that a comment occured
before the first element. This addresses the issue, but the comment
incorrectly includes --.
---
 core/encoding/xml/xml_reader.odin | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/encoding/xml/xml_reader.odin b/core/encoding/xml/xml_reader.odin
index 99d73670b..5e056177e 100644
--- a/core/encoding/xml/xml_reader.odin
+++ b/core/encoding/xml/xml_reader.odin
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ parse_bytes :: proc(data: []u8, options := DEFAULT_OPTIONS, path := "", error_ha
 					comment := scan_comment(t) or_return
 
 					if .Intern_Comments in opts.flags {
-						if len(doc.elements) == 0 {
+						if doc.element_count == 0 {
 							append(&doc.comments, comment)
 						} else {
 							el := new_element(doc)