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Re: Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8

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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:
> While using miniXML v2.8 (http://www.msweet.org/projects.php?Z3) to read and
> process an XML document in a small C program, I came across a problem that
> I cannot surmount.

[...]

> For my demo, I have a dead simple XML document:
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><document>Hello, World</document>

[...]

>   #include <stdio.h>
>   #include <stdlib.h>
>
>   #include <mxml.h>
>
>   int main(void)
>   {
>     int rc = EXIT_FAILURE;
>
>     mxml_node_t *xml, *doc;
>     const char *text;
>
>     xml = mxmlLoadFile(NULL,stdin,MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK);
>     doc = mxmlFindElement(xml,xml,"document",NULL,NULL,MXML_DESCEND_FIRST);
>     text = mxmlGetText(doc,NULL);
>
>     if (text)
>     {
>       printf("Success: \"%s\"\n",text);
>       rc = EXIT_SUCCESS;
>     }
>     else puts("Fail");
>
>     return rc;
>   }

As determined by examining the mini-XML (2.8) code and testing,
mxmlLoadFile (or, more correctly, the corresponding backend routine)
will only create 'interior value nodes' when the first argument to
mxmlLoadFile is not null.

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Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-04-24 09:30 -0400
  Re: Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8 Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-24 19:04 +0100
    Re: Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-04-24 15:16 -0400
      Re: Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8 Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-24 20:45 +0100
        Re: Failure to extract information using mini-XML v2.8 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-04-24 16:02 -0400

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