Your XML file actually looks like this in a DOM tree. Relation - ELEMENTNODE Whitespace - TEXTNODE Subtype - ELEMENTNODE Whitespace - TEXTNODE
The endlines in your document is stored inside the DOM tree as well. You can filter them out using a DOMTreeWalker. Regards / Erik > -----Original Message----- > From: Song Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 3 juni 2004 17:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newbie's question -- extracting information from XML file > > Hi, > > I have an XML file with the format looks like: > =================================== > <relation entry1="43" entry2="48" type="ECrel"> > <subtype name="compound" value="88"/> > </relation> > =================================== > > I want to extract the "value" under the node "subtype" by using DOM, > I've tried two methods but neither return a correct result: > > method 1: get a DOMnode(let's call it nd) points to "relation", then > call "nd2 = nd->getFirstChild();". The problem is that this nd2 has > the type "TEXT NODE", so I can't use "getAttributes", and > getTextContent() doesn't work as well. > > method2: > subList = doc->getElementsByTagName(XMLString::transcode("subtype")); > > This time subList->item(0) has the type "ELEMENT NODE", but > surprisingly "subList->item(0)->getAttributes()->getLength()" returns 1 > !!! and this only attribute is "name" ... I still cannot extract > "value". > > So what's wrong with these methods and what's the good way to get > "value" from this file??? > > Thanks a lot! Please reply, if this message is not clear enough I can > post my code in more detail...... > > Song > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
