[MiniXML] Easier way to deal with multiple tags in the root of an XML doc

[Daniel Morissette]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 2- With a XML doc like this:
>       <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>       <MyTag>
>         ...
>       </MyTag>
>  ... the root of the parsed document points to the <?xml> tag and you
> have to scan all the siblings (whatever they're called in MiniXML) in
> order to find the one that contains the <MyTag>.
> 
> Is there a way to fetch <MyTag> directly?  If not then what would you
> think of adding a function that simplifies fetching <MyTag>?  I don't
> know MiniXML enough to make a good suggestion, but my first reaction was
> to think that the parse function should return a ref to the virtual root
> of the document, and hence looking for "/MyTag" should work out of the
> box.


Frank Warmerdam wrote:

This is a little more hairy.  I would need to think about it a bit. I use
the MiniXML support in a few places so I want to be careful I don't break
them.

[warmerdam]

Daniel, 

While this is unpleasant, I don't want to rock the boat for fear of
breaking other applications using the code.