Thread: TinyXML reading XML and storing to string array

Hello, I'm trying to use TinyXML to read a XML and store some of it's values to a string array.

How would I do this?

So far this is my code: (note you can pretty much just skip to my int main() since everything else is good)

Code:

#define TIXML_USE_STL
#include "tinyxml.h"
#ifdef TIXML_USE_STL
 #include <iostream>
 #include <sstream>
 using namespace std;
#else
 #include <stdio.h>
#endif
#if defined( WIN32 ) && defined( TUNE )
 #include <windows.h>
 __int64 start;
 __int64 end;
 __int64 freq;
#endif
static int gPass = 0;
static int gFail = 0;

bool XmlTest (const char* testString, const char* expected, const char* found, bool noEcho = false)
{
 bool pass = !strcmp( expected, found );
 if ( pass )
  printf ("[pass]");
 else
  printf ("[fail]");
 if ( noEcho )
  printf (" %s\n", testString);
 else
  printf (" %s [%s][%s]\n", testString, expected, found);
 if ( pass )
  ++gPass;
 else
  ++gFail;
 return pass;
}

bool XmlTest( const char* testString, int expected, int found, bool noEcho = false )
{
 bool pass = ( expected == found );
 if ( pass )
  printf ("[pass]");
 else
  printf ("[fail]");
 if ( noEcho )
  printf (" %s\n", testString);
 else
  printf (" %s [%d][%d]\n", testString, expected, found);
 if ( pass )
  ++gPass;
 else
  ++gFail;
 return pass;
}

int main()
{
    TiXmlDocument doc( "demotest.xml" );
    TiXmlElement * element = new TiXmlElement( "Bold" ); 
    doc.LinkEndChild( element );
    cout << element; //i'm just doing cout for now so i can see that a word is stored and not some random bs.
    system("PAUSE");
}

The out put it get is:

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my xml file looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
- <!--
Our to do list data -->
- <ToDo>
- <!--
Do I need a secure PDA? -->
- <Item priority="1" distance="close">
Go to the
<bold>Toy store!</bold>

</Item>


<Item priority="2" distance="none">Do bills</Item>

<Item priority="2" distance="far & back">Look for Evil Dinosaurs!</Item>

</ToDo>

std:: ostream has no idea what to do with a TiXmlElement pointer. it just looks like any other pointer from ostream's perspective. try dereferencing it.

the second attempt is better, but your assignment of a TiXmlElement** to a string is wrong. they are different types and you cannot convert between them. element is a pointer, and when you say &element, you're getting the address of that pointer, so it becomes a TiXmlElement** type. get rid of all that stuff with strings, and see if it works. I don't know TinyXML at all, but I know that you can't do that.

Code:

cout << *element << endl;

seems like it has the best chance of working, but I can't say, because I'm not familiar with TinyXML.

I'm still not getting this. I know it's simple, but I'm quite novice.

Code:

int main()
{
    TiXmlDocument doc( "demotest.xml" );
    TiXmlElement * element = new TiXmlElement( "Bold" ); 
    doc.LinkEndChild( element );  
    const char* str = element->GetText();
    cout << str << endl; 
    system("PAUSE");
}

I get this error 'class TiXmlElement' has no member named 'GetText'

I'm not sure, but i got it from this site. Using TinyXML with Dev-C++, C++ Libraries and Application Frameworks
The .cpp came linked already with tinyxml.