[SOLVED] Libxml2: Outputting XML element with attribute and content

Libxml2: Outputting XML element with attribute and content

I'm using the libxml2 XMLTextWriter API (of which an official example is provided here) to output XML, but can't find any examples or see how to produce an element with both attributes and content, like so:

 <MyElement myAttrib="x">Content</MyElement>

Surprisingly, I'm not seeing any questions on SO that address this. Maybe because people just output XML themselves rather than using a library.

The C code I have so far is:

if (xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, BAD_CAST "MyElement") < 0
    || xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, BAD_CAST "myAttrib", "x") < 0
    || somehow print out content < 0
    || xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer) < 0)
{
   // Handle error
}

Solution

It looks like xmlTextWriterWriteFormatString or xmlTextWriterWriteString will do the trick. Somehow I missed those at first when looking through the API details.

Rather than delete, I'll leave here as this info might be useful for others looking for this info quickly.

Example:

if (xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, BAD_CAST "MyElement") < 0
    || xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, BAD_CAST "myAttrib", "x") < 0
    || xmlTextWriterWriteString(writer, "Content") < 0
    || xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer) < 0)
{
   // Handle error
}

Update: Tested and confirmed this works.