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Methods for Getting Attributes

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Demonstrates some methods for getting attribute name/values.

The input XML, available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/car.xml, is this:

<root>
    <car color="black" make="mercedes" model="C350" hp="302" engine="v6" type="sedan">Mercedes Benz C350</car>
</root>

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();

# The sample input XML is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/car.xml
$success = $xml->LoadXmlFile("car.xml");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $xml->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Navigate to the "car" node, which is the 1st child:
# carNode is a Xml
$carNode = $xml->FirstChild();

# Get the value of the "model" attribute:
print "model = " . $carNode->getAttrValue("model") . "\r\n";

# Get the value of the "hp" attribute as an integer:
$horsepower = $carNode->GetAttrValueInt("hp");
print "horsepower = " . $horsepower . "\r\n";

# Iterate over the attributes and show the name/value of each:
$numAttr = $carNode->get_NumAttributes();

$i = 0;
while ($i < $numAttr) {
    print $carNode->getAttributeName($i) . ": " . $carNode->getAttributeValue($i) . "\r\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}