[gdal-dev] RE: CPLXMLNode, no GetChilds()'like method ?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Aurélien Kamel wrote:
> Actually I have one more question for you. Imagine you have an xml file like
> this :
> 
> ---- start of xml file ----
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> 
> <a b="xxx">
>   <b>
>     ...
>   </b>
> </a>
> ---- end of xml file ----
> 
> How can you access to the node "a" if you don't know its name ? I tried to
> do a recursive function that would loop on all the nodes of the file
> starting from ROOT.
> 
> With the following code I'll only recurse on the "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
> node.
> 
> bool
> MyDriver::parse(const char *filename) {
>   CPLXMLNode* xmlNode = CPLParseXMLFile(filename);
>   If (!xmlNode) return false;
>   return parseLoop(xmlNode);
> }
> 
> bool
> MyDriver::parseLoop(CPLXMLNode *node) {
>   std::cout << "Currently recursing on node: " << node->pszValue <<
> std::endl;
>   
>   for (CPLXMLNode *brother = node->psChild;
>        brother;
>        brother = brother->psNext)
>     if (!parseLoop(brother)) return false;
> 
>   return true;
> }
> 
> Any idea how I'll could recurse on all the nodes that are child of ROOT ?

Aurel,

The code looks ok except that it misses the siblings of the root node.
In a case like the above file the "a" element will be a sibling of the
<?xml...> node, not a child.

There are numerous examples of code for recursing and searching the XML
document in gdal/port/cpl_minixml.cpp.

Best regards,
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