Re: [xml] xmlTextReaderLocalName returns #text

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba gmail com>]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Michael Andersson
<anderssonmichael hotmail com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm having trubble reading my xml file when they contain newline characters.
> The problem is that when I call xmlTextReaderLocalName it returns #text
> instead of the element name. This is what my xml file looks like:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <TestType>
> <int8 type="int8">-126</int8>
> <uint8 type="uint8">249</uint8>
> <int16 type="int16">-31010</int16>
> <uint16 type="uint16">65211</uint16>
> <int32 type="int32">-2147483640</int32>
> <uint32 type="uint32">4294967290</uint32>
> <int64 type="int64">-9223372036854775805</int64>
> <uint64 type="uint64">9223372036854775804</uint64>
> <float32 type="float">1598</float32>
> <float64 type="float64">3489</float64>
> <string type="string">&quot;This is a string&quot;</string>
> </TestType>
> If I remove all the newline characters and put everything on the same line
> my program can read the xml file.
> Any ideas what the problem could be?

There is no problem, you just need to move a bit further ahead in the XML.
Those newline characters appear as nodes of type XML_READER_TYPE_TEXT
(or maybe XML_READER_TYPE_SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE). Those nodes always
have name="#text"

So, between

XML_READER_TYPE_ELEMENT, name=TestType
and
XML_READER_TYPE_ELEMENT, name=int8
there is a node
XML_READER_TYPE_SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE, name=#text, value=(newline)

If you want to process elements, you need to check
xmlTexReaderNodeType and skip nodes which aren't
XML_READER_TYPE_ELEMENT.

Hope this helps,
Csaba
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