How to get attributes from a node in libxml2

Question

I am working on a parser to get data from an XML file. I am using libxml2 to extract data. I am a not able to get the attributes from nodes. I only found nb_attributes

Answer 1

The easiest way I found using libxml2 (through libxml++ in C++) was to use the eval_to_XXX methods. They evaluate an XPath expression, so you need to use the @property syntax.

For example:

std::string get_property(xmlpp::Node *const &node) {
    return node->eval_to_string("@property")
}