Re: [xml] manipulating attributes/values

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +1000, Roger Reynolds wrote:
> One such item is the oraxml function setAttribute(node, name, value)
> which will either create a new attribute node under the specified node,
> having the specified name and value, or if the node already has an attribute
> node with the specified name, replace it's current value with the newly
> specified value.
[...]
> Easy...
> 
> I suppose I need to manually traverse the child nodes of my node, looking
> for
> an appropriately named attribute node, and then I can use  xmlNodeSetContent
> if I
> find one,  or I can create a new attribute node (property) if I don't find
> one...
> 
> That sound about right?

  yes

> I appologize in advance for not being as familiar with libxml as I might be.
> I have been looking over the code and examples most of the day...

  xmlSetProp() and xmlSetNsProp()
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlSetNsProp

  the tree manipulations routines are usually in the tree module, 

Daniel

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