Re: [xml] libxml2 Child Indexing?

[Rob Richards <rrichards cdatazone org>]

Uzumaki Naruto wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using libxml2, and I've been scouring the documentation for a 
> function to retrieve the handle of a child node that is not either the 
> first/last (ie: 2nd child / 5).
>
> What I'm looking for is, for example:
>
> rootNode = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
> secondChildNode = xmlFoo(rootNode , 2);
> printf("Node name: %s", secondChildNode->name);
>
> I am currently doing:
>
> rootNode = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
> firstChildNode = xmlFirstElementChild(rootNode);
> secondChildNode = xmlNextElementSibling(nextChildNode);
> printf("Node name: %s", secondChildNode->name);
If you dont want to do it manually then you need to use XPath to 
retrieve by position.

Rob