On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:35:38PM -0500, John Dennis wrote: > no need to iterate, just create an xpath expression which specifies id=2
Well libxml2 XPath implementation will iterate for you more precisely. > off the top of my head the expression would be "/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"2"]" > > just google xpath syntax or xpath examples, you'll turn up a ton > > libxml2 xpath example C code here: > http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#XPath > > The xpath spec has examples too: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath > > If you're comfortable with python or another scripting language you can > construct a simple test program to exercise your xpath syntax in about 5 > minutes. You can test that even faster using xmllint --shell test.xml and using the xpath command directly there Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
