Need help with Xerces/C++ Parser

There is no simple solution to this problem as I thought it would be. Can anyone help please?
I am trying to print out the names of the elements and the attributes. Here are the files and code I have. The IDE is MSVC++ 7.1

Sax2count.cpp main file:

Code:

const Attributes* myAtts = new VecAttributesImpl();
const Attributes & atts = *myAtts;

const XMLCh *const eleName = new XMLCh;//not sure what to do with the XMLCh

handler.startDocument();
handler.startElement(eleName,attributes);

//this prints element names to console(xerces unique print method:same as cout)
XERCES_STD_QUALIFIER cout << xmlFile << ": " <<" START" << " ms ("
<< handler.getElementName()<< " Element Name, "<< XERCES_STD_QUALIFIER endl;

Handler files:
Sax2countHandlers.cpp file:

Code:

//fElementName defined in const base class
SAX2CountHandlers::SAX2CountHandlers() :
    fElementCount(0)
	, fAttrCount(0)
	, fElementName(0)//here
		.
                                .
                                .
--------------------------------------------
void SAX2CountHandlers::startElement(const XMLCh *const eleName,
                           AttributeList & attributes)
{
 char* message = XMLString::transcode(eleName);
    XERCES_STD_QUALIFIER cerr << "I saw element: "<< message <<        
    XERCES_STD_QUALIFIER endl;
    XMLString::release(&message);
}

Sax2countHandlers.hpp file:

Code:

public:

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Getter methods
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    const XMLCh getElementName() const
    {
        return fElementName;
    }

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Handlers for the SAX ContentHandler interface
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
void startElement(const XMLCh* const eleName,  AttributeList& attributes);

//under private
private:
  const XMLCh  fElementName;

Console output:
I saw element:========================================== ===================

Xml file sample:
<Scenarios>
<Signal userName="Richard">
<ScenarioName>PMOP-OS</ScenarioName>
<RadioFrequency>3</RadioFrequency>
<PRF1>33</PRF1>
<StartFrequency>3</StartFrequency>
<StopFrequency>3</StopFrequency>
<ControlNumber>1002</ControlNumber>
</Signal>
<Signal userName="Mark">
<ScenarioName>PMOP-OS</ScenarioName>
<RadioFrequency>3</RadioFrequency>
<PRF1>33</PRF1>
<StartFrequency>3</StartFrequency>
<StopFrequency>3</StopFrequency>
<ControlNumber>1002</ControlNumber>
</Signal>
.
.
.

What problems are you getting?

There are no build or compile errors, however the element names are not printing out. Once I enter the file name on the command line I get:

Code:

Console output:
I saw element:========================================== ===================

I think it may be the way in which I am initializing the const XMLCh *const eleName variable within the Sax2count.cpp main file. Not sure how the XMLCh should be initialize in order to get the function to print the element names out.