Re: [xml] quick value finding

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:20:39PM +0100, skyhawk redbrick dcu ie wrote:
> I'm thrawling through the docs and anything I've found so far seems
> overkill for what I want to do.
> Basically if i have a file such as <test><entry>printed</entry></test>
> i'd like to be able to do somthing along the lines of
> cout<<valueOf("entry")<<endl; and have printed appear on screen.
>
> I'm sure there must be a method somewhere in the library to allow me 
> to get the values of a given tag.

  No. Because your use case is far too limited for real work.
Just for a start you may have multiple "entry" in a file. It's overkill
to you because you have a far too narrow view of the real needs. Such
an API would be basically useless, except maybe for you, since it would
  1/ only work with a global variable
  2/ would not work correctly with XML namespaces
  3/ would have semantic problem in case of multiple elements
Instead of trying to invent a new API without properly understanding
the context, learn about XPath and check the xpath1 example from
  http://xmlsoft.org/examples/
or use the reader interface and get the content of the (first ?) entry
node. 

Daniel

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