Re: [xml] Listing possible valid attributes

[D Haley <mycae yahoo com>]

That sounds like it might work! I will give it a try.

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> Subject: Re: [xml] Listing possible valid attributes
> To: "D Haley" <mycae yahoo com>
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:50 AM
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 01:34:02AM
> -0700, D Haley wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been hunting around the API, but I cannot seem
> to find any way to obtain a list of attributes as specified
> by the DTD for a given type of node.
> > I am basically building a simple XML writing "helper"
> app and I would like to show users what their attribute
> options are. Does anyone know how I might do this, or where
> I should look?
>
>   Hum, right, there is no equivalent to
> xmlValidGetPotentialChildren()
> but for attributes... The solution is:
>  - use xmlGetDtdElementDesc/xmlGetDtdQElementDesc to find
> the DTD
>    element description for the element
>  - walk the list of struct _xmlElement returned called
> attributes
>    IIRC the list use the ->next link to
> get to the next attribute
>    on that node (nexth is used internally
> for the attribute hash table
>    of the full DTD).
>
> Daniel
>
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