Need help to retrieve all elements and attributes from xml

kingsz1 · **Joined:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:22 pm **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

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/ ... arser.html

kingsz1 · **Joined:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:22 pm **Posts:** 12

Thank you indeed.

Here is the xml sample from xmlsoft.org

Code:

<?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:

Code:

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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