Re: [xml] Best Process for InnerXML from Xpath Query

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:32:34AM -0500, Alex Neblett wrote:
> Hello again:)
>
> I must have caught a nerve or two judging by the response...not really sure
> why...

  Very simple, read why, you're doing it again !
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> Maybe I should try rewording the question...
>
> I would like to be able to read the innerxml as a string result of an Xpath
> query.

  still completely opaque what is an innerxml definition. How does this
relate to XPath ?

> So, for example, if I have some xml such as:
>
> ...
> <topnode>
> <anode>
> <bnode>sjdlkdsf</bnode>
> <cnode>lkjlkdsf</cnode>
> </anode>
> <tnode>
> <unode>sjsddlkdsf</unode>
> <vnode>lkjlkfddsf</vnode>
> </tnode>
> </topnode>
> ...
>
> and queried //anode the resulting string would be...

  if you query //anode you get a Node Set, not a string !

> <bnode>sjdlkdsf</bnode>
> <cnode>lkjlkdsf</cnode>

  That would be a concatenation of the serialization of the
2 returned nodes with a line feed and extra spaces added to the serialization.
libxml2 will never give this back to you by default !

> I wrote a C# wrapper which calls libxml2 to do this, but I am not entirely
> happy with my approach as was looking for guidance as to a better way to do
> it...

  I'm still not sure of what you want to do. There is an example
    http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#xpath1.c
doing "Evaluate XPath expression and prints result node set." Maybe your
problem is about saving the result, I can't tell...

  I really can't debug other people code, especially not standalone, even
worse if it include constructs I don't even understand.

> My example function is below:

  Based on http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html indications it is pretty clear
that I could not debug your code, and that's why I did not reply to your
first mail.

Daniel

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