Caroline Middlebrook wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Is there a way in which I can get the content of an element that has > children, without getting the content of those children also? For example if > I have something like: > > > > <node1> > > <node2>some text</node2> > > <node1> > > > > And I call xmlNodeGetContent on node1, I get "some text" and some blank > characters around it. For this particular example I would want an empty > string as node1 doesn't have any text content itself. > > > > This is actually part of a larger problem that I am trying to solve, so > there may be a better way. Basically, for my application, I have little > fragments of XML that I need to add to various elements of other XML > documents. I need to parse these fragments to ensure they are valid so I was > looking at the functions that add children to nodes but I could not find > anything that adds (and parses) a complete fragment of xml. Therefore, what > I do instead is build a new document from my fragment (which catches any > parse errors), then I iterate around all of the attributes and nodes in a > recursive manner adding them to my target. For each node, I make a new > element with the name and content of the original and here is where I get my > problem - the xmlNodeGetContent function is giving me the concatenated > content of all children but as I am handling recursion myself, I need only > the content of the actual node I am referring to. > Hi Caroline,
This actually sounds like a job for XSLT. Have you not taken that approach for a particular reason? - Rush _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
