Problem using TinyXML

[S. Ali Tokmen]

Hello. I've downloaded the TinyXML package and am using MS Visual Studio 2005 Express for development.

I'm sending you this message to tell that I'm having serious trouble using TinyXML: my users.xml file looks like this:
<user name="0" pass="0" />
<user name="1" pass="1" />
<user name="2" pass="2" />
<user name="3" pass="3" />
I've actually created it using TinyXML so think understood how the creation works (but will have questions about it later). And my code to "start reading it" is
int n_of_users = 0;
TiXmlDocument doc( "users.xml" );
TiXmlHandle docHandle( &doc );
TiXmlElement* element = docHandle.FirstChild().Element();

while( NULL != element )
{
    element = NULL;    // To be changed later...
    n_of_users++;
}

char str[ 55 ];
sprintf( str, "%d", n_of_users );
MessageBox( 0, str, str, 0 );

Problem: docHandle.FirstChild().Element() is always NULL! What am I doing wrong?

Cheers

S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com

[S. Ali Tokmen]

More interesting: the code to read the XML has been replaced with:

    TiXmlDocument doc( "users.xml" );
    TiXmlHandle docHandle( &doc );
    TiXmlNode* element = docHandle.Node();
    if( element->NoChildren() )
    {
        MessageBox( 0, "a", "a", 0 );
    }

And, NoChildren() is always true!

What's happening?

S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com

[S. Ali Tokmen]

OK, it's solved... :)

S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com

[Ellers]

I think its something else, but:

1) Your XML should have a toplevel group, e.g.

<users>
<user name="0" pass="0" />
<user name="1" pass="1" />
<user name="2" pass="2" />
<user name="3" pass="3" />
</users>

2) your iteration code is odd. Have you read the docs and http://software.ellerton.net/tinyxml.html  ?

HTH
Ellers