Re: [xml] Getting element content non-recursively

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

Caroline Middlebrook wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Is there a way in which I can get the content of an element that has
> children, without getting the content of those children also? For example if
> I have something like:
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> <node1>
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>     <node2>some text</node2>
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> <node1>
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> And I call xmlNodeGetContent on node1, I get "some text" and some blank
> characters around it. For this particular example I would want an empty
> string as node1 doesn't have any text content itself.
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> This is actually part of a larger problem that I am trying to solve, so
> there may be a better way. Basically, for my application, I have little
> fragments of XML that I need to add to various elements of other XML
> documents. I need to parse these fragments to ensure they are valid so I was
> looking at the functions that add children to nodes but I could not find
> anything that adds (and parses) a complete fragment of xml. Therefore, what
> I do instead is build a new document from my fragment (which catches any
> parse errors), then I iterate around all of the attributes and nodes in a
> recursive manner adding them to my target. For each node, I make a new
> element with the name and content of the original and here is where I get my
> problem - the xmlNodeGetContent function is giving me the concatenated
> content of all children but as I am handling recursion myself, I need only
> the content of the actual node I am referring to.
Hi Caroline,

This actually sounds like a job for XSLT. Have you not taken that 
approach for a particular reason?

- Rush