Hi Daniel,
On Thursday, 25. September 2008 17:05, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:48:37PM +0200, Hartmut Sbosny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am fresh to libxml. I want to read an xml file containing
> > the part
> > <data>
> > <![CDATA[...]]>
> > </data>
> >
> > Currently I use the xmlParseDoc() interface. My first try was to read the
> > <data> node string via xmlNodeListGetString(). This returns something
>
> You just can't using that API.
Is this a principle limitation of the xmlParseDoc API or only an
accidental API lack? Which API is suitable to read cdata? Sorry for my
stumbling asking, I am new to libxml and xml.
>
> > > From there I could in princple extract the pure "..." content by
> > > subtracting the trailing white space node string, but it seems to me
> > > there should exist an easier libxml way to read the CDATA content?
>
> wei:~/XML -> cat tst.xml
> <data>
> <![CDATA[...]]>
> </data>
>
> wei:~/XML -> xmllint --debug tst.xml
> DOCUMENT
> version=1.0
> URL=tst.xml
> standalone=true
> ELEMENT data
> TEXT compact
> content=
> CDATA_SECTION
> content=...
> TEXT compact
> content=
> wei:~/XML ->
>
> navigate in the tree and grab the data as content-> from the second
> child of your containing element
I probably miss the point. Do you mean I should use the command line
tool 'xmllint'? This would be rather inconvinient for me. I have ready (more
or less) a C program - using the xmlParseDoc API - which reads an XML file,
where the cdata content is only a small piece of. As a workaround to get
the cdata I evaluate currently the three strings
"___...___"
"...___"
"___"
(in the said symbolic meaning) which I get when I parse through the
children of the <data> element using xmlNodeListGetString(). Is that
something I should not rely on?
Thanks for your response
Hartmut
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