Re: [xml] libxml Newbie

[Chris Ryland <cpr emsoftware com>]

Robert--

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 11:20  AM, Robert A. Nurse wrote:

> I'm trying to read a small XML file and add an element off the 
> document root then add
> three child elements to this.  Here's what I'm currently doing to add 
> the new info:
>
> if ((newVersionNode = xmlNewDocText(doc, (xmlChar *) "Version")))
>   {
>     xmlNewTextChild(newVersionNode, NULL, (xmlChar *) "number", 
> (xmlChar *) newVersion);
>     xmlNewTextChild(newVersionNode, NULL, (xmlChar *) "startTime", 
> (xmlChar *)
> newStartTime);
>     xmlNewTextChild(newVersionNode, NULL, (xmlChar *) "endTime", 
> (xmlChar *)
> newEndTime);
>     xmlSaveFormatFile (xmlDocumentName, doc, 1);
>   }

I'm a fairly newbie too, but wouldn't you do something like

newVersionNode = xmlNewNode(NULL, (xmlChar *) "Version"));
xmlAddChild(doc, newVersionNode);

and then do the stuff above?

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com