Creating Attributes

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Source Code Listing

// Modify the crisp.xml document by relocating some information
// as attributes instead of child nodes.  
void CreateAttributes(void)
    {
    // Load the input document.
    CkXml xml;
    xml.LoadXmlFile("crisp.xml");

    // Iterate over the "DOC" nodes by calling FirstChild
    // followed by NextSibling2 repeatedly until it returns false.
    CkXml *node = xml.FirstChild();
    CkString strContent;
    while (node)
	{
	CkXml *langNode = node->FindChild("Language");
	if (langNode)
	    {
	    // Add the language information as an attribute of the "DOC" node.
	    langNode->get_Content(strContent);
	    node->AddAttribute("language",strContent.getString());

	    // Remove the "Language" node from the document because the
	    // information is now stored as an attribute of the parent.
	    langNode->RemoveFromTree();

	    delete langNode;
	    }

	// Move to the next sibling. The internal reference within node is updated
	// to the node's next sibling. If no siblings remain, it returns false.
	if (!node->NextSibling2())
	    {
	    delete node;
	    node = 0;
	    }
	}

    xml.SaveXml("CreateAttributes.xml");
    return;
    }