libxml2 xmlwriter

Libxml2 set of examples

//-- xmlwriter.c --
#include <libxml/xmlversion.h>
#include <libxml/xmlstring.h>
#include <libxml/xmlwriter.h>

int main(void) {
  xmlTextWriterPtr writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename("hello.xml", 0);
  if (writer == NULL) {
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }
  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "UTF-8", NULL);
    xmlTextWriterWriteComment(writer, BAD_CAST "comment");
    xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, BAD_CAST "root");
      xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, BAD_CAST BAD_CAST "attribute", BAD_CAST "1.0");
      xmlTextWriterWriteFormatComment(writer, "format %s", "comment");
      xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, BAD_CAST "entry", BAD_CAST "Hello World");
      xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement(writer, BAD_CAST "entry", "format %s", BAD_CAST "Hello World");
    xmlTextWriterEndElement(writer);
  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);
  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
/*
$ gcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 -lxml2 xmlwriter.c -oxmlwriter
$ ./xmlwriter
$ cat hello.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--comment--><root attribute="1.0"><!--format comment--><entry>Hello World</entry><entry>format Hello World</entry></root>
*/