Re: [xml] xmlTextReaderConstValue

["Benyounes, Mohamed" <mbenyounes tycoint com>]

Daniel, you are right in that xmlTextReaderConstValue returns " "(space
char) and not a NULL (my bad). The problem is that prior to calling
xmlTextReaderConstValue, I call xmlTextReaderNodeType to check if the
return value is of type XML_TEXT_NODE. If the so then I call
xmlTextReaderConstValue to read the value.
xmlTextReaderNodeType returns XML_TEXT_NODE (value 3) when there is text
in the entry and XML_DTD_NODE (value 14) when there is space. Since I am
only looking for XML_TEXT_NODE and ignoring XML_DTD_NODE, I do not call
xmlTextReaderConstValue to read the value.
Is it OK then to also accept returns of type XML_DTD_NODE when I am
looking for text and also allow space characters?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Benyounes, Mohamed
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] xmlTextReaderConstValue

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:46:53PM -0500, Benyounes, Mohamed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is an example of a xml node I am trying to parse: 
>
> <thisNode>  </thisNode>
>
>  
>
> I am using xmlTextReaderConstValue to read the value of thisNode. The
> problem is that if the node is made of only 1 or more spaces only,
this
> function returns a NULL. My question is, is there another function
that

  WRONG !

paphio:~/XML -> cat tst.xml
<thisNode>  </thisNode>
paphio:~/XML -> gdb xmllint 
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(gdb) b xmlTextReaderConstValue
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80efa15: file xmlreader.c, line 3529.
(gdb) r --stream --debug tst.xml
Starting program: /u/veillard/XML/xmllint --stream --debug tst.xml

Breakpoint 1, xmlTextReaderConstValue (reader=0x8732c70) at
xmlreader.c:3529
3529        if (reader == NULL)
(gdb) c
Continuing.
0 1 thisNode 0 0

Breakpoint 1, xmlTextReaderConstValue (reader=0x8732c70) at
xmlreader.c:3529
3529        if (reader == NULL)
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0  xmlTextReaderConstValue (reader=0x8732c70)
    at xmlreader.c:3529
0x0804a6a7 in processNode (reader=0x8732c70) at xmllint.c:1728
1728            value = xmlTextReaderConstValue(reader);
Value returned is $1 = (const xmlChar *) 0x87363f4 "  "
(gdb) 

  on the second node, the #text one, the value returned is the text
content
not NULL. I.e. libxml2 operates as expected.

Daniel

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