Re: [xml] xmlNodePtr->content always empty?

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Nils Schnabel said:
> Hello,
>
> it seems to me as xmlNodePtr->content is always empty, although in
> the
> document there is something!
> My XML-testfile is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <objects>asd</objects>
>
> And now, when I get a xmlNodePtr cur; via XPath, cur->name is right
> ("objects"), but cur->content is empty or someting like that... I
> can't
> print it to the screen using cout or use it in any other way, but
> cout
> behaves weird:
>
> cout << "test: " << cur->content << endl;
>
> leads to "test: ", but no new line at the end.
>
> I hope you can help me! (I know that I'm likely simply to blind or
> stupid to see my mistake...)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nils Schnabel
>
> (I'm  using libxml 2.6.6 on Mandrake Linux 10 CE)

Without looking into your program (and I really don't want to do
that) it's a little hard to guess where you are going wrong, but it
looks as if you are a little confused about nodes and contents.

With your sample file:

bill billsuper work $ cat obj.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<objects>asd</objects>

I can display the tree structure produced by the library:

bill billsuper work $ xmllint --debug obj.xml
DOCUMENT
version=1.0
encoding=UTF-8
URL=obj.xml
standalone=true
  ELEMENT objects
    TEXT
      content=asd

> From this, you can see that the 'objects' node has a child TEXT
node, and it is the content of this child which you are looking for.

HTH

Bill