Re: [xml] Get sub-document from xmlDocPtr

[Andrew Hartley <andrew hartley bcs org uk>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:25:20AM -0700, Andrew Hartley wrote:
> > Andrew Hartley wrote:
> > > Having extracted a sub-document with an XPath expression and now have
> > an
> > > xmlXPathObjectPtr is there a simple way to output the sub-document into
> > a
> > > new xmlDocPtr so that this sub-document can then be saved to disk?
> >
> >
> > It's ok, I have worked it out:
> >
> > [code]
> > xmlDocPtr pXmlSubDoc = pXPathObj->nodesetval->nodeTab[0]->doc;
> > [/code]
>
>   Note that an XPath object could also be a number, a boolean or a string,
> so don't blindly do that dereference and check pXPathObj type first, and
> then that the pointer is not null, and then that the node set at least has
> one node, and that this node is not a namespace (namespace nodes don't
> have
> pointer back to the document).
>
>   Basically there is tons of checking missing there, and i would prefer
> if other people didn't just cut and past that everywhere...
> I think it really makes more sense to keep the document pointer around, 
> for example it's embedded in the XPath evaluation context. Beware of bad
> scoping/API design that happen frequently when you don't have yet a good
> vison of the objects manipulated.
>
> Daniel
>
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Thanks for the reply Daniel.  However, I only wanted to explain that I had
solved the problem.  Here is a little more of my code just in case others
have the same problem:

[code]
xmlDocPtr pXmlDoc = xmlParseFile( szFilepath );

if ( pXmlDoc )
{
   xmlXPathContextPtr pXPathCtx = xmlXPathNewContext( pXmlDoc );

   CString sNsUri = rDoc.GetNameSpaceURI();
   // Register namespace we are just abut to use:
   xmlXPathRegisterNs( pXPathCtx, (const xmlChar*)"ct1", (const
xmlChar*)(LPCTSTR)sNsUri );
   // XPath expression to get the CT1 nodeset:
   xmlXPathObjectPtr pXPathObj = xmlXPathEvalExpression( (const
xmlChar*)"//ct1:Ct1", pXPathCtx );

   if ( pXPathObj )
   {
      xmlNodeSetPtr pNodeSet = pXPathObj->nodesetval;

      if ( pNodeSet && pNodeSet->nodeNr > 0 
                         && pNodeSet->nodeTab[0]->type != XML_NAMESPACE_DECL 
                         && pNodeSet->nodeTab[0] )
      {
         // sub-document containing only the CT1 nodeset:
         xmlDocPtr pXmlSubDoc = pNodeSet->nodeTab[0]->doc;

         // ... and save:
         xmlSaveCtxtPtr pSaveCtx = xmlSaveToFilename(
sFilenameCopyTo.c_str(), NULL, 0 );
         long ret = xmlSaveDoc( pSaveCtx, pXmlSubDoc );
         ret = xmlSaveClose( pSaveCtx );

         ++nCopied;

         xmlXPathFreeObject( pXPathObj );
      }
   }

   xmlXPathFreeContext( pXPathCtx );
   xmlFreeDoc( pXmlDoc );
}
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