Re: [xml] some basic questions.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:20:53PM +0300, Manos Moschous wrote:
> What am i want to do is to use an HtmlParser(not xmlParser) within Apache
> Web server
> and change (add attributes, remove attributes, add elements, remove
> elements) the html file that parses.
> I work under windows 2000 platform.
>
> Is it possible using the htmlParser of libxml library..?

  yes.

> I found in the documentation some examples for changing xml files (they use
> "xmlNewProp" for adding properties and "xmlNewTextChild" for elements).
> There aren't any similar functions in htmlParser.c file.
> Can i use these functions for html files..?

  yes the html and the xml parsers produce the same kind of trees.

> Could somebody please give me some basic directions..?

  htmlReadxxx instead of xmlReadxxxx

  http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#xpath2.c
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLparser.html
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLtree.html
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html

Daniel

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