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kingsz1 · Familiar Face Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 12

Hi, all.

I am trying to use libxml2 to retrieve all the elements and attributes from a xml file. Through the tutorial in xmlsoft.org, I am able to compile the example code to retrieve A certain element or attribute. Now I want to know how to retrieve ALL elements or attributes in this xml file. Or say how I can walk through the whole xml file and read its content.

Any idea or link for my question?

I know this is not a actual GTK+ question, but waht I wan to do just to read the content from a xml file and load to the CLIST in GTK+. I hope the guru here can help me.

openldev · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:41 am Post subject:

It's been a while since I've used libxml2, but if you just need to parse small XML files, GLib provides an XML parser. API docs are available at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Simple-XML-Subset-Parser.html

kingsz1 · Familiar Face Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 12

Thank you indeed.

Here is the xml sample from xmlsoft.org

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14	<?xml version="1.0"?> <story> <storyinfo> <author>John Fleck</author> <datewritten>June 2, 2002</datewritten> <keyword>example keyword</keyword> </storyinfo> <body> <headline>This is the headline</headline> <para>This is the body text.</para> </body> </story>

Here is the code portion from xmlsoft.org with my modification to display all elements inside:

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void
parseStory (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) {

xmlChar *key;
cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
while (cur != NULL) {
/* if ((!xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *)"keyword"))) {
key = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
printf("keyword: %s\n", key);
xmlFree(key);
}
*/
key = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
printf("Element:Name %s\n", cur->name);
printf("Element Value: %s\n", key);
cur = cur->next;
}
return;
}

Here is the output:

What's wrong with my code?
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