How to get string from xml in COM - c++

Question

I have one array like this:
static WCHAR FilesToShow[][100] = { { L"start.cmd" },{ L"image.xml" }, { L"xyz" }};
as you see that there is "xyz" which I have to replace with some unique name. For this I have to read image.xml file.
Please can you tell me how can I do this.
I wrote a method like this:
PRIVATE WCHAR GetSystemName(WCHAR *pName)
{
WCHAR line;
wfstream in("image.xml");
WCHAR tmp;
bool begin_tag = false;
while (getline(in,line))
{
// strip whitespaces from the beginning
for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++)
{
if (line[i] == ' ' && tmp.size() == 0)
{
}
else
{
tmp += line[i];
}
}
if (wcswcs(tmp,"<SystemPath>") != NULL)
{
???????? how to get "vikash" from here <SystemPath>C:\Users\rs_user\Documents\RobotStudio\Systems\vikash</SystemPath>
}
else
{
continue;
}
}
return tmp;
}
I'm getting exception for wfstream, getline and line.length() method.
I have included fstream.h header file but I think It's not supported in COM.
Please help me how to solve this issue without parsing xml file.

Answer 1

If your xml-file is simple enough so that there is only a single tag with given name, you could do it like this:
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
std::wstring get_value(std::wistream & in, std::wstring const & tagname)
{
std::wstring text = std::wstring(std::istreambuf_iterator<std::wstring::value_type>(in),
std::istreambuf_iterator<std::wstring::value_type>());
std::wstring start_tag = L"<" + tagname + L">";
std::wstring end_tag = L"</" + tagname + L">";
std::wstring::size_type start = text.find(start_tag);
if (start == std::wstring::npos)
{
throw 123;
}
start += start_tag.length();
std::wstring::size_type end = text.find(end_tag);
if (end == std::wstring::npos)
{
throw 123;
}
return text.substr(start, end - start);
}
std::wstring get_substr_after(std::wstring const & str, wchar_t delim)
{
std::wstring::size_type pos = str.rfind(delim);
if (pos == std::wstring::npos)
{
throw 123;
}
return str.substr(pos + 1);
}
void stackoverflow()
{
std::wstring text(L"<foo>\n<bar>abc/def/ghi</bar>\n<baz>123/456/789</baz>\n</foo>\n");
std::wistringstream wiss(text);
std::wcout << text << std::endl;
std::wcout << get_substr_after(get_value(wiss, std::wstring(L"bar")), L'/') << std::endl;
}
The output of this program is:
<foo>
<bar>abc/def/ghi</bar>
<baz>123/456/789</baz>
</foo>
ghi
I hope that answered your question.

Answer 2

you have several issues here.
what you are getting are compiler errors and not exceptions
the header file to include is 'fstream' not 'fstream.h'.
make sure you have a line saying using namespace std;
You are declaring line as a variable of type WCHAR, so it is a single wide character, which surely is not a wstring object. Therefore line.length() is incorrect.
Why are you mixing C (wcswcs()) and C++ (STL) ? maybe you should re-design your function signature.
However, try the below function. I have modified the signature to return a pointer to WCHAR, and place the requested string in the buffer space provided by pName. I added a check to verify that the buffer is large enough to fit the name and the terminating NULL character.
WCHAR* GetSystemName(WCHAR *pName, size_t buflen)
{
wstring line;
wifstream in("image.xml");
WCHAR* tmp = NULL;
while (getline(in,line))
{
// strip whitespaces from the beginning
size_t beg_non_whitespace = line.find_first_not_of(L" \t");
if (beg_non_whitespace != wstring::npos)
{
line = line.substr( beg_non_whitespace );
}
size_t beg_system_path = line.find( L"<SystemPath>" );
if ( beg_system_path != wstring::npos )
{
// strip the tags (assuming closing tag is present)
size_t beg_data = beg_system_path + wstring( L"<SystemPath>" ).length();
size_t range = line.find( L"</SystemPath>" ) - beg_data;
line = line.substr( beg_data, range );
// get file name
size_t pos_last_backslash = line.find_last_of( L'\\' );
if ( pos_last_backslash != wstring::npos )
{
line = line.substr( pos_last_backslash + 1 );
if ( buflen <= line.length() )
{
// ERROR: pName buffer is not large enough to fit the string + terminating NULL character.
return NULL;
}
wcscpy( pName, line.c_str() );
tmp = pName;
break;
}
}
}
return tmp;
}
EDIT: Moreover, if you are using and/or parsing XML in other areas of your program, I strongly suggest using an XML parsing library such as Xerces-C or libXml2.

Answer 3

Thank you all for your answer. Here I got solution of my question.
PRIVATE WCHAR* GetNewSystemName()
{
WCHAR line[756];
WCHAR tempBuffer[100];
CComBSTR path = CurrentFolder.Path();
CComBSTR imagePath1 = L"rimageinfo.xml";
path.AppendBSTR(imagePath1);
std::wfstream in(path);
WCHAR tmp[756];
in.getline(line, 756);
WCHAR* buffer;
buffer = wcswcs(line, L"<SystemPath>");
WCHAR *dest = wcsstr(buffer, L"</SystemPath>");
int pos;
pos = dest - buffer;
unsigned int i = 0;
if (wcswcs(buffer,L"<SystemPath>") != NULL && wcswcs(buffer,L"</SystemPath>") != NULL)
{
for (; i < pos; i++)
{
if (buffer[i] == ' ' && sizeof(tmp) == 0)
{
}
else
{
tmp[i] = buffer[i];
}
}
tmp[i] = NULL;
//break;
}
int j = i;
for (; j > 0; j--)
{
if (tmp[j] == '\\')
{
break;
}
}
j++;
int k = 0;
for (; j < i ; j++)
{
System_Name[k] = tmp[j];
k++;
}
System_Name[k] = NULL;
return System_Name;