I want to do the exact same thing as the guy in this question.
I want to convert an XML child element (and all of its children) to an XML string, so if the XML structure were
<parent>
<child>
<value>abc</value>
</child>
<parent>
I want the xml for the child element, e.g.
<child>
<value>abc</value>
</child>
I don't care about whitespace. The problem is that the accepted answer from the other question appears to be out of date, because there is no "Print" method for XMLElement objects. Can I do this with TinyXml2?
I coded up the following function that does the trick for me. Please note that it may have bugs- I am working with very simple XML files, so I won't pretend that I have tested all cases.
void GenXmlString(tinyxml2::XMLElement *element, std::string &str)
{
if (element == NULL) {
return;
}
str.append("<");
str.append(element->Value());
str.append(">");
if (element->GetText() != NULL) {
str.append(element->GetText());
}
tinyxml2::XMLElement *childElement = element->FirstChildElement();
while (childElement != NULL) {
GenXmlString(childElement, str);
childElement = childElement->NextSiblingElement();
}
str.append("</");
str.append(element->Value());
str.append(">");
}
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I'm using RapidXML to parse XML files and read nodes content but I don't want to read values inside a node, I need to read the content of specific XML nodes "as XML" not as parsed values.
Example :
<node1>
<a_lot_of_xml>
< .... >
</a_lot_of_xml>
</node1>
I need to get the content of node1 as :
<a_lot_of_xml>
< .... >
</a_lot_of_xml>
What I tired :
I tried something but its not really good in my opinion, its about to put in node1, the path of an other xml file to read, I did like this :
<file1ToRead>MyFile.xml</file1ToRead>
And then my c++ code is the following :
ifstream file(FileToRead);
stringstream buffer; buffer << file.rdbuf();
But the problem is users will have a lot of XML files to maintain and I just want to use one xml file.
I think "a lot of XML files" is a better way, so you have a directory of all xml files, you can read the xml file when you need it, good for performance.
Back to the problem, can use the rapidxml::print function to get the xml format.
bool test_analyze_xml(const std::string& xml_path)
{
try
{
rapidxml::file<> f_doc(xml_path.c_str());
rapidxml::xml_document<> xml_doc;
xml_doc.parse<0>(const_cast<char*>(f_doc.data()));
rapidxml::xml_node<>* node_1 = xml_doc.first_node("node1");
if(node_1 == NULL)
{
return false;
}
rapidxml::xml_node<>* plain_txt = node_1->first_node("a_lot_of_xml");
if (plain_txt == NULL)
{
return false;
}
std::string xml_data;
rapidxml::print(std::back_inserter(xml_data), *plain_txt, rapidxml::print_no_indenting); //the xml_data is XML format.
}
catch (...)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
I'm unfamiliar with rapidxml, but I have done this with tinyxml2. The trick is to read out node1 and then create a new XMLDoc (using tinyxml2 terms here) that contains everything inside of node1. From there, you can use their XMLPrinter class to convert your new XMLDoc (containing everything in node1) to a string.
tinyxml2 is a free download.
i have xml file like this
<root>
<element>
<child id = "0"> Some Text </child> <-- Target To Delete
</element>
<element>
<child id = "1"> Some Text </child>
</element>
</root>
how can i delete child element of id "0" ? using Qt library.
QDomDocument doc;
doc.setContent(oldXml);
QDomNodeList nodes = doc.elementsByTagName("element");
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.count(); ++i)
{
QDomNode node = nodes.at(i);
QDomElement child = node.firstChildElement("child");
if (!child.isNull() && child.attribute("id") == "0")
{
node.removeChild(child);
}
}
QString newXml = doc.toString();
How do I remove a child with a specific attribute? I´m using c++/libxml2. My attempt so far (in the example I want to remove child node with id="2"):
Given XML:
<p>
<parent> <--- current context
<child id="1" />
<child id="2" />
<child id="3" />
</parent>
</p>
xmlNodePtr p = (parent node)// Parent node, in my example "current context"
xmlChar* attribute = (xmlChar*)"id";
xmlChar* attribute_value = (xmlChar*)"2";
xmlChar* xml_str;
for(p=p->children; p!=NULL; p=p->next){
xml_str = xmlGetProp(p, attribute);
if(xml_str == attribute_value){
// Remove this node
}
}
xmlFree(xml_str);
Call xmlUnlinkNode to remove a node. Call xmlFreeNode to free it afterward, if you want:
for (p = p->children; p; ) {
// Use xmlStrEqual instead of operator== to avoid comparing literal addresses
if (xmlStrEqual(xml_str, attribute_value)) {
xmlNodePtr node = p;
p = p->next;
xmlUnlinkNode(node);
xmlFreeNode(node);
} else {
p = p->next;
}
}
Haven't used this library in a while, but check out this method. Note that per the description, you need to call xmlUnlinkNode first.
In TinyXml 1 it was possible to convert a child element to a string using the << operator, e.g.
TiXmlElement * pxmlChild = pxmlParent->FirstChildElement( "child" );
std::stringstream ss;
ss << (*pxmlChild);
This doesn't appear possible in TinyXml2. How do you convert an element to an xml string in TinyXml2?
Edit: Specifically I'm after the xml, e.g. if the xml was:
<parent>
<child>
<value>abc</value>
</child>
<parent>
I want the xml for the child element, e.g.
<child>
<value>abc</value>
</child>
Seems like Print isn't there any more but Accept works just as well:
XMLPrinter printer;
pxmlChild->Accept( &printer );
ss << printer.CStr();
From the TinyXml2 community:
Printing (of a sub-node) is in a utility function:
XMLPrinter printer;
pxmlChild->Print( &printer );
ss << printer.CStr();
TiXmlElement *assertion; // you can add some elements when you test
TiXmlPrinter printer;
assertion->Accept( &printer );
std::string stringBuffer = printer.CStr();
cout<<stringBuffer.c_str()<<endl;
yester day was my first attempt. I am trying to catch the variable "time" in the following "new.xml" file
<?xml version="1.0" standalone=no>
<main>
<ToDo time="1">
<Item priority="1"> Go to the <bold>Toy store!</bold></Item>
<Item priority="2"> Do bills</Item>
</ToDo>
<ToDo time="2">
<Item priority="1"> Go to the Second<bold>Toy store!</bold></Item>
</ToDo>
</main>
Here is my code
TiXmlDocument doc("new.xml");
TiXmlNode * element=doc.FirstChild("main");
element=element->FirstChild("ToDo");
string temp=static_cast<TiXmlElement *>(element)->Attribute("time");
But I am getting run time errors from the third and fourth lines. Can anybody shed a light on this isssue?
It seems to me that you forgot to load the file. Normally I do something along these lines:
TiXmlDocument doc("document.xml");
bool loadOkay = doc.LoadFile(); // Error checking in case file is missing
if(loadOkay)
{
TiXmlElement *pRoot = doc.RootElement();
TiXmlElement *element = pRoot->FirstChildElement();
while(element)
{
string value = firstChild->Value(); // In your example xml file this gives you ToDo
string attribute = firstChild->Attribute("time"); //Gets you the time variable
element = element->NextSiblingElement();
}
}
else
{
//Error conditions
}
Hope this helps
#include "tinyXml/tinyxml.h"
const char MY_XML[] = "<?xml version='1.0' standalone=no><main> <ToDo time='1'> <Item priority='1'> Go to the <bold>Toy store!</bold></Item> <Item priority='2'> Do bills</Item> </ToDo> <ToDo time='2'> <Item priority='1'> Go to the Second<bold>Toy store!</bold></Item> </ToDo></main>";
void main()
{
TiXmlDocument doc;
TiXmlHandle docHandle(&doc);
const char * const the_xml = MY_XML;
doc.Parse(MY_XML);
TiXmlElement* xElement = NULL;
xElement = docHandle.FirstChild("main").FirstChild("ToDo").ToElement();
int element_time = -1;
while(xElement)
{
if(xElement->QueryIntAttribute("time", (int*)&element_time) != TIXML_SUCCESS)
throw;
xElement = xElement->NextSiblingElement();
}
}
That's how it works. Compiled & tested.
As you can see your tries to make it extra-safe code cost you with an exceotion at your third line (of the question), and without testing I can bet it's a "pointing-to-null" exception.
Just load it my style, as TinyXml's docs say as well: "docHandle.FirstChild("main").FirstChild("ToDo").ToElement();".
Hope it helps you understand, let me know if it's not clear. I accept visa (:
Is it just me or the the pugixml version looks much better?
#include <iostream>
#include "pugixml.hpp"
using namespace std;
using namespace pugi;
int main()
{
xml_document doc;
if (!doc.load_file("new.xml"))
{
cerr << "Could not load xml";
return 1;
}
xml_node element = doc.child("main");
element = element.child("ToDo");
cout << "Time: " << element.attribute("time") << endl;
}
Also new.xml had an error, instead of:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone=no>
should be
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
Compilation was just a matter of cl test.cpp pugixml.cpp