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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Parsing the file</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Libxml Tutorial"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Libxml Tutorial"><link rel="previous" href="ar01s02.html" title="Data Types"><link rel="next" href="ar01s04.html" title="Retrieving Element Content"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Parsing the file</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ar01s02.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="ar01s04.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xmltutorialparsing"></a>Parsing the file</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p><a class="indexterm" name="fileparsing"></a> Parsing the file requires only the name of the file and a single function call, plus error checking. Full code: <a href="apc.html" title="C.�Code for Keyword Example">Appendix�C, <i>Code for Keyword Example</i></a></p><p> </p><pre class="programlisting"> <a name="declaredoc"></a><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"> xmlDocPtr doc; <a name="declarenode"></a><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"> xmlNodePtr cur; <a name="parsefile"></a><img src="images/callouts/3.png" alt="3" border="0"> doc = xmlParseFile(docname); <a name="checkparseerror"></a><img src="images/callouts/4.png" alt="4" border="0"> if (doc == NULL ) { fprintf(stderr,"Document not parsed successfully. \n"); return; } <a name="getrootelement"></a><img src="images/callouts/5.png" alt="5" border="0"> cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc); <a name="checkemptyerror"></a><img src="images/callouts/6.png" alt="6" border="0"> if (cur == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"empty document\n"); xmlFreeDoc(doc); return; } <a name="checkroottype"></a><img src="images/callouts/7.png" alt="7" border="0"> if (xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *) "story")) { fprintf(stderr,"document of the wrong type, root node != story"); xmlFreeDoc(doc); return; } </pre><p> </p><div class="calloutlist"><table border="0" summary="Callout list"><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#declaredoc"><img src="images/callouts/1.png" alt="1" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Declare the pointer that will point to your parsed document.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#declarenode"><img src="images/callouts/2.png" alt="2" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Declare a node pointer (you'll need this in order to interact with individual nodes).</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#checkparseerror"><img src="images/callouts/4.png" alt="4" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Check to see that the document was successfully parsed. If it was not, <span class="application">libxml</span> will at this point register an error and stop. </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.png"></td><th align="left">Note</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><p><a class="indexterm" name="id2525337"></a> One common example of an error at this point is improper handling of encoding. The <span class="acronym">XML</span> standard requires documents stored with an encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 to contain an explicit declaration of their encoding. If the declaration is there, <span class="application">libxml</span> will automatically perform the necessary conversion to UTF-8 for you. More information on <span class="acronym">XML's</span> encoding requirements is contained in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charencoding" target="_top">standard</a>.</p></td></tr></table></div><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#getrootelement"><img src="images/callouts/5.png" alt="5" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Retrieve the document's root element.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#checkemptyerror"><img src="images/callouts/6.png" alt="6" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>Check to make sure the document actually contains something.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="5%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="#checkroottype"><img src="images/callouts/7.png" alt="7" border="0"></a> </td><td valign="top" align="left"><p>In our case, we need to make sure the document is the right type. 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