<html><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Retrieving Element Content</title><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"><linkrel="home"href="index.html"title="Libxml Tutorial"><linkrel="up"href="index.html"title="Libxml Tutorial"><linkrel="previous"href="ar01s03.html"title="Parsing the file"><linkrel="next"href="ar01s05.html"title="Using XPath to Retrieve Element Content"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divclass="navheader"><tablewidth="100%"summary="Navigation header"><tr><thcolspan="3"align="center">Retrieving Element Content</th></tr><tr><tdwidth="20%"align="left"><aaccesskey="p"href="ar01s03.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><thwidth="60%"align="center"><EFBFBD></th><tdwidth="20%"align="right"><EFBFBD><aaccesskey="n"href="ar01s05.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="xmltutorialgettext"></a>Retrieving Element Content</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p><aclass="indexterm"name="id2525439"></a>
</p><divclass="calloutlist"><tableborder="0"summary="Callout list"><tr><tdwidth="5%"valign="top"align="left"><ahref="#getchildnode"><imgsrc="images/callouts/1.png"alt="1"border="0"></a></td><tdvalign="top"align="left"><p>Get the first child node of <ttclass="varname">cur</tt>. At this
point, <ttclass="varname">cur</tt> points at the document root, which is
the element "story".</p></td></tr><tr><tdwidth="5%"valign="top"align="left"><ahref="#huntstoryinfo"><imgsrc="images/callouts/2.png"alt="2"border="0"></a></td><tdvalign="top"align="left"><p>This loop iterates through the elements that are children of
"story", looking for one called "storyinfo". That
is the element that will contain the "keywords" we are
function, <ttclass="function"><ahref="https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libxml2/devhelp/libxml2-parser.html#XMLSTRCMP"target="_top">xmlStrcmp</a></tt>. If there is a match, it calls the function <ttclass="function">parseStory</tt>.</p></td></tr></table></div><p>
</p><divclass="calloutlist"><tableborder="0"summary="Callout list"><tr><tdwidth="5%"valign="top"align="left"><ahref="#anothergetchild"><imgsrc="images/callouts/1.png"alt="1"border="0"></a></td><tdvalign="top"align="left"><p>Again we get the first child node.</p></td></tr><tr><tdwidth="5%"valign="top"align="left"><ahref="#findkeyword"><imgsrc="images/callouts/2.png"alt="2"border="0"></a></td><tdvalign="top"align="left"><p>Like the loop above, we then iterate through the nodes, looking
"keyword".</p></td></tr><tr><tdwidth="5%"valign="top"align="left"><ahref="#foundkeyword"><imgsrc="images/callouts/3.png"alt="3"border="0"></a></td><tdvalign="top"align="left"><p>When we find the "keyword" element, we need to print
use the function <ttclass="function"><ahref="https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libxml2/devhelp/libxml2-tree.html#XMLNODELISTGETSTRING"target="_top">xmlNodeListGetString</a></tt>, which also takes the <ttclass="varname">doc</tt> pointer as an argument. In this case, we just print it out.</p><divclass="note"style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><tableborder="0"summary="Note"><tr><tdrowspan="2"align="center"valign="top"width="25"><imgalt="[Note]"src="images/note.png"></td><thalign="left">Note</th></tr><tr><tdcolspan="2"align="left"valign="top"><p>Because <ttclass="function">xmlNodeListGetString</tt> allocates
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