I am using the SAX interface of libXML to write a XML parser application in C++.
<abc value="xyz "pqr""/>
how do I parse this attribute?
I tried using
void startElementNsSAX2Func(void * ctx, const xmlChar *localname, const xmlChar *prefix, const xmlChar *URI, int nb_namespaces, const xmlChar ** namespaces, int nb_attributes, int nb_defaulted, const xmlChar ** attributes)
, incrementing attributes parameter( and checking for a " to indicate the end of the attribute value).
It works for all the attributes other than *"*
appearing in the attribute value.
What is the right method to parse these kind of attribute values?
Thanks
try this function:
xmlChar *getAttributeValue(char *name, const xmlChar ** attributes,
int nb_attributes)
{
int i;
const int fields = 5; /* (localname/prefix/URI/value/end) */
xmlChar *value;
size_t size;
for (i = 0; i < nb_attributes; i++) {
const xmlChar *localname = attributes[i * fields + 0];
const xmlChar *prefix = attributes[i * fields + 1];
const xmlChar *URI = attributes[i * fields + 2];
const xmlChar *value_start = attributes[i * fields + 3];
const xmlChar *value_end = attributes[i * fields + 4];
if (strcmp((char *)localname, name))
continue;
size = value_end - value_start;
value = (xmlChar *) malloc(sizeof(xmlChar) * size + 1);
memcpy(value, value_start, size);
value[size] = '\0';
return value;
}
return NULL;
}
YOu can use it like this:
char *value = getAttributeValue("value", nb_attributes, attributes);
printf("%s\n", value);
free(value);