Re: [xml] Inserting node using xpath and schema

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:40:08PM -0400, Kreidler Joseph-QA1818 wrote:
> I'm fairly new to xmllib2 and could not find answers to my questions
> below by searching the FAQ and list archives. I'm trying to determine
> how I can use xmllib2 to accomplish the following:
>
> - I have a parsed XML document in memory 
> - I have multiple schemas for the document (a base schema and
> extensions)
> - I have an Xpath element expression and an element value
>
> I want to be able to add the new element and value to the document based
> on the Xpath expression and the schemas. The schema contains sequences
> so the Xpath element has to inserted as a child node in between existing
> siblings.
>
> I can add a child node but its always after all of the existing
> children.
>
> Are there APIs that allow me to insert a node in between existing
> sibling nodes?

  create the node, then use xmlAddPrevSibling or xmlAddNextSibling 

> Is there a way to use a schema to tell libxml2 to insert a node as a
> child of a parent and the schema is used to determine the proper
> location of the node amongst the existing children?

  no

Daniel

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