How to get attributes from a node in libxml2

Question

I am working on a parser to get data from an XML file. I am using libxml2 to extract data. I am a not able to get the attributes from nodes. I only found nb_attributes

Answer 1

I think I found why you only got 1 attribute (at least it happened to me).

The problem was that I read attributes for first node but next is a text node. Don't know why, but node->properties gives me a reference to a non-readable part of memory, so it crashed.

My solution was to check node type (element is 1)

I'm using a reader, so:

xmlTextReaderNodeType(reader)==1

The entire code you can get it from http://www.xmlsoft.org/examples/reader1.c and add this

xmlNodePtr node= xmlTextReaderCurrentNode(reader);
if (xmlTextReaderNodeType(reader)==1 && node && node->properties) {
    xmlAttr* attribute = node->properties;
    while(attribute && attribute->name && attribute->children)
    {
      xmlChar* value = xmlNodeListGetString(node->doc, attribute->children, 1);
      printf ("Atributo %s: %s\n",attribute->name, value);
      xmlFree(value);
      attribute = attribute->next;
    }
}

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