Re: [xml] search by element name

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 04:20:01AM -0500, George Neill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a function that would allow me to search for a DOM element by
> name without using xpath?  I can't seem to find one in the API
> documentation.
>
> Something like,
>
> xmlNode* xmlFindElementByName(xmlNode * haystack, xmlChar * needle);

  No. There is a full XPath support, use XPath. Trying to 'invent' a 
subset like this is just gonna generate tons of problems:
  - what if the node is namespaced ?
  - how do you select with the namespace ?
  - what if you need to look for a PI and attribute ?

trying to reinvent the wheel that way is useless, if you want to implement
a simpler semantic on top of XPath just define a function doing the wrapping.

Daniel

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