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Tue Jun 4 09:09:18 MDT 2002 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
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apc.html
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includeaddkeyword.c
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+<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><title>Retrieving Element Content</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.48"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Libxml Tutorial"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Libxml Tutorial"><link rel="previous" href="ar01s03.html" title="Parsing the file"><link rel="next" href="ar01s05.html" title="Writing element content"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Retrieving Element Content</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ar01s03.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ar01s05.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xmltutorialgettext"></a>Retrieving Element Content</h2></div></div><p>Retrieving the content of an element involves traversing the document
+ tree until you find what you are looking for. In this case, we are looking
+ for an element called "keyword" contained within element called "story". The
+ process to find the node we are interested in involves tediously walking the
+ tree. We assume you already have an xmlDocPtr called <tt>doc</tt>
+ and an xmlNodPtr called <tt>cur</tt>.</p><p>
+ <pre class="programlisting">
+ <a name="getchildnode"></a><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"> cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
+ <a name="huntstoryinfo"></a><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"> while (cur != NULL) {
+ if ((!xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *)"storyinfo"))){
+ parseStory (doc, cur);
+ }
+
+ cur = cur->next;
+ }
+
+ </pre>
+
+ <div class="calloutlist"><table border="0" summary="Callout list"><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#getchildnode"><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Get the first child node of <tt>cur</tt>. At this
+ point, <tt>cur</tt> points at the document root, which is
+ the element "story".</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#huntstoryinfo"><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>This loop iterates through the elements that are children of
+ "story", looking for one called "storyinfo". That
+ is the element that will contain the "keywords" we are
+ looking for. It uses the libxml string
+ comparison
+ function, <tt><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#XMLSTRCMP" target="_top">xmlStrcmp</a></tt>. If there is a match, it calls the function <tt>parseStory</tt>.</p></td></tr></table></div>
+ </p><p>
+ <pre class="programlisting">
+void
+parseStory (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) {
+
+ <a name="anothergetchild"></a><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"> cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
+ <a name="findkeyword"></a><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"> while (cur != NULL) {
+ if ((!xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *)"keyword"))) {
+ <a name="foundkeyword"></a><img src="images/callouts/3.png" alt="3" border="0"> printf("keyword: %s\n", xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));
+ }
+ cur = cur->next;
+ }
+ return;
+}
+ </pre>
+ <div class="calloutlist"><table border="0" summary="Callout list"><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#anothergetchild"><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Again we get the first child node.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#findkeyword"><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Like the loop above, we then iterate through the nodes, looking
+ for one that matches the element we're interested in, in this case
+ "keyword".</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#foundkeyword"><img src="images/callouts/3.png" alt="3" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>When we find the "keyword" element, we need to print
+ its contents. Remember that in XML, the text
+ contained within an element is a child node of that element, so we
+ turn to <tt>cur->xmlChildrenNode</tt>. To retrieve it, we
+ use the function <tt><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLNODELISTGETSTRING" target="_top">xmlNodeListGetString</a></tt>, which also takes the <tt>doc</tt> pointer as an argument. In this case, we just print it out.</p></td></tr></table></div>
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