Re: [xml] parsing DTD

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:38:06PM +0200, Filippo Mariani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'v just started to use libxml and I'm trying to access the content of an
> element in a dtd declaration. For example I need to access what the element
> 'doc' contains in the following declaration:
>
> <!ELEMENT doc (a+, b, c*)>
>
> Using the function:
>
>   xmlElementPtr   xmlGetDtdElementDesc    (xmlDtdPtr dtd,
>                                            const xmlChar *name);
>
> I am able only to get the name of the first child of the element doc:
>
> xmlElementPtr ele;
> ele=xmlGetDtdElementDesc(dtd, "doc");
>
> ele->content->c1->name returns "a"
> ele->content->c2->name returns nothing (I don't know why)
>
> How can I get the name of the third element?

 the xmlElementContent ele->content generated should be 

 -> SEQ -> SEQ -> c
     |      | 
     a      b

 ele->content->c2->c2->name
The value for name is defined only if type == XML_ELEMENT_CONTENT_ELEMENT
you were looking for a node with type == XML_ELEMENT_CONTENT_SEQ

Daniel

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