Re: [xml] newbie question.

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor stud fh-frankfurt de>]

> How could I access those elements (FL, BG, 
> SH,etc)? I thought those elements should
> be the children nodes of the TOP elements, 
> aren't they?

They are. And they have siblings you know nothing about, such as the one you 
encountered.

This is off-topic here. It targets the very basics of XML and has nothing to 
do with any XML processor software. You have seen XML and, like all of us in 
the very beginning, wrongly assumed it were simple :-)

The thing that confuses you confuses about 90% of XML newbies and is fully 
understood only when they try to write a XML processor. XML stores data, not 
its representation. When you store data, all of it matters. Every byte. The 
offending node you received contains the line-delimiting characters, spaces 
and tabs you used to make the XML hierarchy in your file easily perceivable 
by human senses. Unfortunately, computers don't tick like humans do and 
years shall pass before they begin doing so. Today, computers don't give a 
yesterday's coffee for your formatting.

Get yourself a good book about XML. Do not try to use libxml for reading 
files you made with a text editor. Use libxml to generate your XML files, 
then take a look at what libxml generated and compare it with what you would 
have typed in your text editor. That is the most effective way to comprehend 
what you have seen.

Ciao
Igor