Get IP from .xml doc In C Program

Question

Im doing a program in C and i want to get two IPs from this .xml doc.

I was doing this way but its returning only the first IP:

void parseGlobalStats(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) {

xmlChar *IP;

    cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
    cur = cur->next;
    cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
   while (cur != NULL)
{
     if ((!xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *)"IP")))
     {
     IP = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
     printf("IP = %s\n",IP);
     }
     return;
}
}

It is compiling well but it is returning only the first IP(179.199.24.207) when executed. How can i create a function that get 2 IPs from this doc and store it in a string variable?

Answer 1

Since you are only looking for some global stats (including IP), you can use xpath evaluation.

Using xpath, the following file [ test.xml ]:

<icestats>
  <source mount="/stream">
    <Listeners>2</Listeners>
    <listener>
      <IP>179.199.24.207</IP>
      <UserAgent>cmus/v2.4.3</UserAgent>
      <Connected>76810</Connected>
      <ID>405</ID>
    </listener>
    <listener>
      <IP>177.133.209.80</IP>
      <UserAgent>WinampMPEG/5.0</UserAgent>
      <Connected>72</Connected>
      <ID>1435</ID>
    </listener>
  </source>
</icestats>

can extract IP with [ test.c ]:

/* refactored [minimal changes] from libxml2 tutorials
 * [ http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/apd.html ]
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libxml/parser.h>
#include <libxml/xpath.h>

xmlDocPtr getdoc (char *docname) 
{
  xmlDocPtr doc;
  doc = xmlParseFile(docname);

  if (doc == NULL ) {
    fprintf(stderr,"Document not parsed successfully. \n");
    return NULL;
  }

  return doc;
}

xmlXPathObjectPtr getnodeset (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlChar *xpath)
{
  xmlXPathContextPtr context;
  xmlXPathObjectPtr result;

  context = xmlXPathNewContext(doc);
  if (context == NULL) {
    printf("Error in xmlXPathNewContext\n");
    return NULL;
  }
  result = xmlXPathEvalExpression(xpath, context);
  xmlXPathFreeContext(context);
  if (result == NULL) {
    printf("Error in xmlXPathEvalExpression\n");
    return NULL;
  }
  if(xmlXPathNodeSetIsEmpty(result->nodesetval)){
    xmlXPathFreeObject(result);
    printf("No result\n");
    return NULL;
  }
  return result;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) 
{
  char *docname = "test.xml";
  xmlDocPtr doc;
  xmlChar *xpath = (xmlChar*) "//IP";
  xmlNodeSetPtr nodeset;
  xmlXPathObjectPtr result;
  int i;
  xmlChar *IP;

  doc = getdoc(docname);
  result = getnodeset (doc, xpath);
  if (result) 
  {
    nodeset = result->nodesetval;
    for (i=0; i < nodeset->nodeNr; i++) 
    {
      IP = xmlNodeListGetString(
          doc, 
          nodeset->nodeTab[i]->xmlChildrenNode, 
          1);
      printf("IP: %s\n", IP);
      xmlFree(IP);
    }
    xmlXPathFreeObject (result);
  }
  xmlFreeDoc(doc);
  xmlCleanupParser();
  return (1);
}

sample output:

./test 
IP: 179.199.24.207
IP: 177.133.209.80

Further reference

• Using XPath to Retrieve Element Content
• http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/apd.html