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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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#include <C_CkXmlW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkXmlW xml;
    HCkXmlW carNode;
    int numAttr;
    int horsepower;
    int i;

    success = FALSE;

    xml = CkXmlW_Create();

    // The sample input XML is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/car.xml
    success = CkXmlW_LoadXmlFile(xml,L"car.xml");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_lastErrorText(xml));
        CkXmlW_Dispose(xml);
        return;
    }

    // Navigate to the "car" node, which is the 1st child:
    carNode = CkXmlW_FirstChild(xml);

    // Get the value of the "model" attribute:
    wprintf(L"model = %s\n",CkXmlW_getAttrValue(carNode,L"model"));

    // Get the value of the "hp" attribute as an integer:
    horsepower = CkXmlW_GetAttrValueInt(carNode,L"hp");
    wprintf(L"horsepower = %d\n",horsepower);

    // Iterate over the attributes and show the name/value of each:
    numAttr = CkXmlW_getNumAttributes(carNode);

    i = 0;
    while (i < numAttr) {
        wprintf(L"%s: %s\n",CkXmlW_getAttributeName(carNode,i),CkXmlW_getAttributeValue(carNode,i));
        i = i + 1;
    }

    CkXmlW_Dispose(carNode);


    CkXmlW_Dispose(xml);

    }