Re: [xml] quick value finding

[skyhawk redbrick dcu ie]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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. 

Rightyo, thought it may have one as sax in Java has a getElementsByTagName("tag") method.
I'll go rethink what I plan to do.

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