Re: [xml] Getting element content non-recursively

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

Caroline Middlebrook wrote:
> Hi Rush,
>
>
> > This actually sounds like a job for XSLT. Have you not taken that
> > approach for a particular reason?
> > - Rush
>
>
> Yes, I am using a C++ library that has been written by somebody else in my
> company. I can make small additions to it but nothing major. The library is
> just a C++ wrapper around libxml, and doesn't support XSLT or any other XML
> technologies.

Well, that's too bad. I have to admit that I don't quite see what you're 
doing, but I will offer one idea to think about. Would it help you to 
first iterate over all the elements in document order and save pointers 
to them in a vector, then go through the vector in reverse order to do 
your replacements? That would mean that you replace contents of the most 
highly nested elements first. I have an application that needs to 
replace attributes on certain elements, and that is the way I do it. 
When I get the contents of a node, I get all the nested content too, 
including whatever I may have changed already.

- Rush