Re: [xml] Removing all of the xml:X attributes from a node

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:46:46PM -0800, Rush Manbert wrote:
> I am trying to write a function that removes all attributes from an 
> element using the tree interface. It seems that xml:lang, xml:id, and 
> xml:space are special cases, since they have their own get and set 
> functions.
> 
> Do I need to do anything special to remove these attributes from the 
> node?

  No, they are normal attributes, only their namespace is special.

> My current code for "remove all attributes" is this:
> 
> inline void
> removeAllNodeAttributes (xmlNodePtr pNode)
> {
>     xmlAttrPtr pAttr;
>     while (NULL != (pAttr = pNode->properties))
>     {
>         xmlRemoveProp (pAttr);
>     }
> }

  that should work. That won't remove namespace declarations, but that's
normal they are a different kind of nodes, and removing them is way harder.

Daniel

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