Can you please give me a quick summary on why using xpath from xalan will make my life easier? or point me to somewhere on the internet where I can read up more information.
Thanks!!!
-dc
On 12/16/05, Gareth Reakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
David Chu wrote:
> Hi, I'm a newbie on xerces-c.
> In particular, I'm using the DOM API provided by xerces-c.
>
> I defined a fairly complicated XML schema.
> My program parses the XML document based on my XML schema and use the
> information extracted from the XML document to config the program during
> run-time.
>
> I was surprise that in-order to extract a piece of information from the
> DOMElement, it took me about 10 to 20 sloc.
> For example, I need to invoke getElementByTagName() few times in-order
> to get to the node where the information reside, and then invoke
> getChildNode()->item(i) to get the value, after that, I need to use
> XMLString::transcode() to convert the result to cont char*.
>
> I wonder if I did anything wrong? or if there's a faster way to access
> information through the DOM tree.
If speed is not a huge issue for you you can use an XPath library such
as Pathan or Xalan which can both integrate with Xerces.
Cheers,
Gareth
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