Issues adding attribute to XML root node via augeas

Question

I am using augeas to manipulate XML on some machines. Whereas creating new nodes and also setting a bunch of attributes worked like a charm I\'m biting my nails of adding a

Answer 1

Order matters in the Augeas tree. In that case, XML node attributes need to be set before the #text node and the child nodes.

So what you need is:

ins #attribute before /files/test.xml/Context/#text
set /files/test.xml/Context/#attribute/allowLinking true

Note that this change is not idempotent, since insert is not an idempotent operation.

On Puppet, you could use onlyif to make this idempotent.