On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Spartaco wrote: > Well, > the simpliest solution I've found on my own is like that: > > xml = xmlReaderForFile("example.xml", NULL, 0); > xmlTextReaderRead(xml); > doc = xmlTextReaderCurrentDoc(xml); > root = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc); > agent = xmlGetProp(root, "agent"); > ... > > and then proceed with the rest of parsing using the Reader interface, as > usual. > Do not forget to use xmlFreeDoc(doc) at the end of parsing.
Well that's not 100% guaranteed to work, the xmlTextReaderRead() will scan through all nodes. If there is another node (not element) before the root node, like say a comment, you code will break. do Read() until you reach an element and use the reader to get the attribute. Daniel > > On 10/11/2014 12:12 PM, Spartaco wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > I'm just wondering if is there a simple way in LibXML2 to get an > > attribute value from the root node, preferably using the Reader interface. > > I have no problems at all with attributes from other nodes, they all are > > accessible by > > xmlTextReaderGetAttribute function, but root. > > Apparently LibXML2 discards root node attributes, or may be I'm missing > > something. > > > > Just to be clear, I intend to parse something like: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <Example agent="myclient"> > > <value1>aaa</value1> > > </Example> > > > > and I'd like to get the value of the "agent" attribute. > > Can someone give me an hint? > > > > Regards > > SM > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > > xml@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml > > > > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > xml@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml