Re: [xml] ID attribute in xml

[Cory Nelson <phrosty gmail com>]

Have you tried using XPath?


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:47:18 -0500, Kedar Joshi <kpjoshi gmail com> wrote:
> Using libxml, I am creating the DOM tree from a parsed XML file. What
> i need is to get the pointer to some NODE in the tree from an ID
> attribute asigned in the XML file.
>
> Do i have to create the hash table of attributes on my own or is it
> created by the following calls, or in any other way?
> ..
>  xmlDocPtr doc;
>  xmlNodePtr cur;
> ...
>   /*
>    * build an XML tree from a the file;
>    */
>   doc = xmlParseFile(filename);
>   cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
> ....
>
> here is the structure of xmlDocPtr
>
> typedef xmlDoc *xmlDocPtr;
> struct _xmlDoc {
> .
> .
>   void           *ids;        /* Hash table for ID attributes if any */
>   void           *refs;       /* Hash table for IDREFs attributes if any */
> .
> .
>
> };
>
> thanks,
> Kedar
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