Re: [xml] Searching in reader API

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 05:10:55PM +0530, divij wrote:
> Hi All,
>          Here I am having one large xml file having the entries (apprx
> 5000 records), the records also contain the UNICODE characters. Now, I
> directly want to search that record (with the case of partial matching
> also if possibles).
> Is there any way in libxml/reader API to search specific record.
>  
> Example:-
>  
> <record-set>
>     <record>BBC News Monday</record>
>     <record>BBC News Tuesday/record>
>     <record>BBC News Wednesday</record>
>     <record>BBC News Thusday</record>
>     <record>BBC News Friday</record>
>     <record>BBC News saturday</record>
> </record-set>
>  
> Now if suppose I directly want to search the record BBC News Friday is
> it possible to do by any which way in libxml.

  Don't use the reader, build a full tree instead and use XPath

  /record-set/record[. = "BBC News Friday"]

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev etc.

Daniel

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