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Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

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Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags.

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#include <C_CkXmlW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkXmlW xml;
    int numPhoneNumbers;
    int i;
    HCkXmlW xPhoneNumber;
    int numGroupMemberships;
    HCkXmlW xMembership;

    success = FALSE;

    // This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    // <someEntries>
    //     <entry>
    //         <id>123</id>
    //         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
    //         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
    //         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
    //         <title>George Costanza</title>
    //          <gd:name>
    //             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
    //             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
    //             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
    //         </gd:name>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
    //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
    //     </entry>
    // </someEntries>
    // 

    xml = CkXmlW_Create();

    success = CkXmlW_LoadXmlFile(xml,L"qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml");

    numPhoneNumbers = CkXmlW_NumChildrenHavingTag(xml,L"entry|*:phoneNumber");
    i = 0;
    while (i < numPhoneNumbers) {
        xPhoneNumber = CkXmlW_GetNthChildWithTag(xml,L"entry|*:phoneNumber",i);
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_content(xPhoneNumber));
        CkXmlW_Dispose(xPhoneNumber);
        i = i + 1;
    }

    wprintf(L"----\n");

    numGroupMemberships = CkXmlW_NumChildrenHavingTag(xml,L"entry|*:groupMembershipInfo");
    i = 0;
    while (i < numGroupMemberships) {
        xMembership = CkXmlW_GetNthChildWithTag(xml,L"entry|*:groupMembershipInfo",i);
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_getAttrValue(xMembership,L"href"));
        CkXmlW_Dispose(xMembership);
        i = i + 1;
    }



    CkXmlW_Dispose(xml);

    }