How do I parse the following in TinyXML:
<multi_path literal="not_measured"/>
I am able to easily parse the below line:
<hello>1234</hello>
The problem is that the first statement is not getting parsed the normal way. Please suggest how to go about this.
Not 100% sure what youre question is asking but here is a basic format too loop through XML files using tinyXML:
/*XML format typically goes like this:
<Value atribute = 'attributeName' >
Text
</value>
*/
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(); //Gets the Value
string attribute = firstChild->Attribute("attribute"); //Gets the attribute
string text = firstChild->GetText(); //Gets the text
element = element->NextSiblingElement();
}
}
else
{
//Error conditions
}
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I'm pretty new to using XML in C++ and i'm trying to parse a list of files to download.
THe XML file I'm using is generated via PHP and looks like this :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FileList>
<File Name="xxx" Path="xxx" MD5="xxx" SHA1="xxx"/>
</FileList>
The code I'm using in C++ is the following, which I came up using some online tutorials (it's included in some global function):
tinyxml2::XMLDocument doc;
doc.LoadFile("file_listing.xml");
tinyxml2::XMLNode* pRoot = doc.FirstChild();
tinyxml2::XMLElement* pElement = pRoot->FirstChildElement("FileList");
if (pRoot == nullptr)
{
QString text = QString::fromLocal8Bit("Error text in french");
//other stuff
}
else
{
tinyxml2::XMLElement* pListElement = pElement->FirstChildElement("File");
while (pListElement != nullptr)
{
QString pathAttr = QString::fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("Path"));
QString md5Attr = QString:: fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("MD5"));
QString sha1Attr = QString::fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("SHA1"));
QString currentPath = pathAttr.remove("path");
QString currentMd5 = this->fileChecksum(currentPath, QCryptographicHash::Md5);
QString currentSha1 = this->fileChecksum(currentPath, QCryptographicHash::Sha1);
QFile currentFile(currentPath);
if (md5Attr != currentMd5 || sha1Attr != currentSha1 || !currentFile.exists())
{
QString url = "url" + currentPath;
this->downloadFile(url);
}
pListElement = pListElement->NextSiblingElement("File");
}
Problem is, I get an error like "Access violation, this was nullptr" on the following line :
tinyxml2::XMLElement* pListElement = pElement->FirstChildElement("File");
Since I'm far from a pro when it comes to coding and I already searched the internet up and down, I hope that someone here can provide me some pointers.
Have a good day, folks.
I don't know if you have C++17 available, but you can remove a lot of noise by using auto* and if-init-expressions (or rely on the fact that pointers can be implicitly converted to boolean values.)
The main issue with your code is you were not using XMLElement* but instead a XMLNode. The function tinyxml2::XMLDocument::RootElement() automatically gets the top-most element for you.
Because you have an xml declaration at the top, FirstChild returns that...which doesn't have any children, so the rest of the code fails.
By using RootElement tinyxml knows to skip any leading non-element nodes (comments, doctypes, etc.) and give you <FileList> instead.
tinyxml2::XMLDocument doc;
auto err = doc.LoadFile("file_listing.xml");
if(err != tinyxml2::XML_SUCCESS) {
//Could not load file. Handle appropriately.
} else {
if(auto* pRoot = doc.RootElement(); pRoot == nullptr) {
QString text = QString::fromLocal8Bit("Error text in french");
//other stuff
} else {
for(auto* pListElement = pRoot->FirstChildElement("File");
pListElement != nullptr;
pListElement = pListElement->NextSiblingElement("File"))
{
QString pathAttr = QString::fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("Path"));
QString md5Attr = QString:: fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("MD5"));
QString sha1Attr = QString::fromStdString(pListElement->Attribute("SHA1"));
QString currentPath = pathAttr.remove("path");
QString currentMd5 = this->fileChecksum(currentPath, QCryptographicHash::Md5);
QString currentSha1 = this->fileChecksum(currentPath, QCryptographicHash::Sha1);
QFile currentFile(currentPath);
if(md5Attr != currentMd5 || sha1Attr != currentSha1 || !currentFile.exists()) {
QString url = "url" + currentPath;
this->downloadFile(url);
}
}
}
}
According to the reference for tinyxml2::XMLNodeFirstChild():
Get the first child node, or null if none exists.
This line will therefore get the root node:
tinyxml2::XMLNode* pRoot = doc.FirstChild();
Meaning when you attempt to find a FileList node within the root node it returns null.
To avoid the access violation, check your pointers are valid before using them. There is an if check for pRoot but the line immediately before it tries to call a function on pRoot. There is no if check for pElement so this is why you get an access violation. As well as checking pointers are valid, consider adding else blocks with logging to say what went wrong (e.g. "could not find element X"). This will help you in the long run - XML parsing is a pain, even with a library like Tinyxml, there are always teething problems like this, so getting into the habit of checki g pointers and logging out helpful messages will definitely pay off.
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 get the following xml
<Tra Type="SomeText">
<tr>Abcdefghij qwertzu</tr>
<Rr X="0.0000" Y="0.0000" Z="0.0000" A="0.0000" B="0.0000" C="0.0000" />
<Ar A1="0.0000" A2="0.0000" A3="0.0000" A4="0.0000" A5="0.0000" A6="0.0000" />
<Er E1="0.0000" E2="0.0000" E3="0.0000" E4="0.0000" E5="0.0000" E6="0.0000" />
<Te T21="1.09" T22="2.08" T23="3.07" T24="4.06" T25="5.05" T26="6.04" T27="7.03" T28="8.02" T29="9.01" T210="10.00" />
<D>125</D>
<IP></IP>
</Tra>
through a socket that saves it in a QByteArray called Data.
I want to extract and save every value from the xml to different variables (some as Integers some as QString's).
My main problem is that I dont know how to distinguish xml strings like <D>125</D> with a value in between the Tags and xml strings like <Te T210="10.00" T29="9... /> that got the value in the Tag-String itself.
My code looks like this so far:
QByteArray Data = socket->readAll();
QXmlStreamReader xml(Data);
while(!xml.atEnd() && !xml.hasError())
{
.....
}
There's just so many examples already, aren't there? =(
Anyway, like Frank said, if you want to read data (characters) from within tags - use QXmlStreamReader::readElementText.
Alternatively, you can do this:
QXmlStreamReader reader(xml);
while(!reader.atEnd())
{
if(reader.isStartElement())
{
if(reader.name() == "tr")
{
reader.readNext();
if(reader.atEnd())
break;
if(reader.isCharacters())
{
// Here is the text that is contained within <tr>
QString text = reader.text().toString();
}
}
}
reader.readNext();
}
For attributes, you should use QXmlStreamReader::attributes which will give you a container-type class of attributes.
QXmlStreamReader reader(xml);
while(!reader.atEnd())
{
if(reader.isStartElement())
{
if(reader.name() == "Rr")
{
QXmlStreamAttributes attributes = reader.attributes();
// This doesn't check if the attribute exists... just a warning.
QString x = attributes.value("X").toString();
QString y = attributes.value("Y").toString();
QString a = attributes.value("A").toString();
// etc...
}
}
reader.readNext();
}
UPDATE: Still not working :( I have updated the code portion to reflect what I currently have.
This should be a pretty easy question for people who have used TinyXML. I'm attempting to use TinyXML to parse through an XML document and pull out some values. I figured out how to add in the library yesterday, and I have successfully loaded the document (hey, it's a start).
I've been reading through the manual and I can't quite figure out how to pull out individual attributes. After Googling around, I haven't found an example of my specific example, so perhaps someone here who has used TinyXML can help out. Below is a slice of the XML, and where I have started to parse it.
XML:
<EGCs xmlns="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
<card type="EGC1">
<offsets>
[ ... ]
</offsets>
</card>
<card type="EGC2">
<offsets>
[ ... ]
</offsets>
</card>
</EGCs>
Loading/parsing code:
TiXmlDocument doc("EGC_Cards.xml");
if(doc.LoadFile())
{
TiXmlHandle hDoc(&doc);
TiXmlElement* pElem;
TiXmlHandle hRoot(0);
pElem = hDoc.FirstChildElement().Element();
if (!pElem) return false;
hRoot = TiXmlHandle(pElem);
//const char *attribval = hRoot.FirstChild("card").ToElement()->Attribute("card");
pElem = hDoc.FirstChild("EGCs").Child("card", 1).ToElement();
if(pElem)
{
const char* tmp = pElem->GetText();
CComboBox *combo = (CComboBox*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EGC_CARD_TYPE);
combo->AddString(tmp);
}
}
I want to pull out each card "type" and save it to a string to put into a combobox. How do I access this attribute member?
After a lot of playing around with the code, here is the solution! (With help from HERE)
TiXmlDocument doc("EGC_Cards.xml");
combo = (CComboBox*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EGC_CARD_TYPE);
if(doc.LoadFile())
{
TiXmlHandle hDoc(&doc);
TiXmlElement *pRoot, *pParm;
pRoot = doc.FirstChildElement("EGCs");
if(pRoot)
{
pParm = pRoot->FirstChildElement("card");
int i = 0; // for sorting the entries
while(pParm)
{
combo->InsertString(i, pParm->Attribute("type"));
pParm = pParm->NextSiblingElement("card");
i++;
}
}
}
else
{
AfxMessageBox("Could not load XML File.");
return false;
}
there should be a Attribute method that takes and attribut name as parameter see: http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxmldocs/classTiXmlElement.html
from the documentation I see the code would look like:
hRoot.FirstChildElement("card").ToElement()->Attibute("type");
However for the type of thing you are doing I would use XPATH if at all possible. I have never used it but the TinyXPath project may be helpful if you choose to go that route the link is: http://tinyxpath.sourceforge.net/
Hope this helps.
The documentation I am using to help you from is found at: http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxmldocs/hierarchy.html
What you need is to get the attribute type from the element card. So in your code it should be something like:
const char * attribval = hRoot.FirstChild("card").ToElement()->Attribute("card");
Hi
I want to use XML file as a config file, from which I will read parameters for my application. I came across on PugiXML library, however I have problem with getting values of attributes.
My XML file looks like that
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
<deltaDistance> </deltaDistance>
<deltaConvergence>0.25 </deltaConvergence>
<deltaMerging>1.0 </deltaMerging>
<m> 2</m>
<multiplicativeFactor>0.7 </multiplicativeFactor>
<rhoGood> 0.7 </rhoGood>
<rhoMin>0.3 </rhoMin>
<rhoSelect>0.6 </rhoSelect>
<stuckProbability>0.2 </stuckProbability>
<zoneOfInfluenceMin>2.25 </zoneOfInfluenceMin>
</settings>
To pare XML file I use this code
void ReadConfig(char* file)
{
pugi::xml_document doc;
if (!doc.load_file(file)) return false;
pugi::xml_node tools = doc.child("settings");
//[code_traverse_iter
for (pugi::xml_node_iterator it = tools.begin(); it != tools.end(); ++it)
{
cout<<it->name() << " " << it->attribute(it->name()).as_double();
}
}
and I also was trying to use this
void ReadConfig(char* file)
{
pugi::xml_document doc;
if (!doc.load_file(file)) return false;
pugi::xml_node tools = doc.child("settings");
//[code_traverse_iter
for (pugi::xml_node_iterator it = tools.begin(); it != tools.end(); ++it)
{
cout<<it->name() << " " << it->value();
}
}
Attributes are loaded corectly , however all values are equals 0. Could somebody tell me what I do wrong ?
I think your problem is that you're expecting the value to be stored in the node itself, but it's really in a CHILD text node. A quick scan of the documentation showed that you might need
it->child_value()
instead of
it->value()
Are you trying to get all the attributes for a given node or do you want to get the attributes by name?
For the first case, you should be able to use this code:
unsigned int numAttributes = node.attributes();
for (unsigned int nAttribute = 0; nAttribute < numAtributes; ++nAttribute)
{
pug::xml_attribute attrib = node.attribute(nAttribute);
if (!attrib.empty())
{
// process here
}
}
For the second case:
LPCTSTR GetAttribute(pug::xml_node & node, LPCTSTR szAttribName)
{
if (szAttribName == NULL)
return NULL;
pug::xml_attribute attrib = node.attribute(szAttribName);
if (attrib.empty())
return NULL; // or empty string
return attrib.value();
}
If you want stock plain text data into the nodes like
<name> My Name</name>
You need to make it like
rootNode.append_child("name").append_child(node_pcdata).set_value("My name");
If you want to store datatypes, you need to set an attribute. I think what you want is to be able to read the value directly right?
When you are writing the node,
rootNode.append_child("version").append_attribute("value").set_value(0.11)
When you want to read it,
rootNode.child("version").attribute("version").as_double()
At least that's my way of doing it!