Re: [xml] Combining two xml files.

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 02/08/04 08:13, Manish Padmajan wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I am trying to combine 2 xml files into 1 using libxml library.
> This is what I have done.
>  
> writer =  xmlNewTextWriterFilename(file,0);
> rc = xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer,BAD_CAST "root");
>  
> doc1 = xmlParseFile(file1);
> cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc1);
> rc = xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer,BAD_CAST "xnlFile1");
> print_element(cur,doc1,writer,0); //for parsing through the xml file and
> writing node name and value. This function is called recursively.
> rc = xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer);
>  
> doc2 = xmlParseFile(file2);
> cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc2);
> rc = xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer,BAD_CAST "xnlFile2");
> print_element(cur,doc2,writer,0);//for parsing through the xml file and
> writing node name and value. This function is called recursively.
> rc = xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer);
>  
> xmlFreeDoc(doc1);
> xmlFreeDoc(doc2);
> rc = xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer);
> xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);
> xmlCleanupParser();
>  
> When we see the contents of the final xml file, the 'root' is closed even
> before the contents of the second file is copied into the final xml file.
> Hence the xml file reports an error.  
> Is there anything wrong that I am doing. I even tried calling
> xmlCleanupParser() after parsing each xml file. But it had no effect.
> If only one xml file is parsed and written into the final xml file, no
> errors are reported.
> Any hints in this direction will be really helpful.

How about using XInclude?

Ciao,
Igor