Re: [xml] getting values of attributes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:01:13AM +0530, Krishnan narayanan iflexsolutions com wrote:
> Hi
> We are currently using a program, which will parse an XML documents contents
> and store the values into a database. I have a small doubt here. The method,
> which is being currently used works in this way: the node pointer moves to
> each element and then we do a "string compare" of the element's name (since
> we know the names of the elements through the DTD). If the status comes
> true, then we use xmlGetProp to get the value present in every attribute of
> the element. But here, for every attribute, we are using an xmlGetProp and
> this process becomes cumbersome if the number of attributes are more for any
> element and if the XML file is large.
>
> I will try to give an example pertaining to this. Suppose I have an element
> by name SHIRT and it has a number of attributes like COLOR, TEXTURE and SIZE
> etc the program "string compares" the string SHIRT with the name of the
> element to which the node is pointing to. When this is true, it uses
> xmlGetProp repetitively for every attribute (for COLOR, for TEXTURE, for
> SIZE) to get the attribute values.
>
> I would like to know if there is any method by which I can retrieve an
> attribute's value without having do go through such a process. It would be
> great if you could help me out. I have been desperately trying to find out a
> method but haven't been successful.

  Read the code of xmlGetProp and do the lookup directly from the internal
structure in a similar way. I don't what else you could do.

Daniel

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