would be cool if there was a static assert

[T. M. Harada]

not sure how exactly it would be done, but as much as i love TinyXml (and i do -- the company i work at uses it pretty exclusively -- we wrote a wrapper similar to paramio for developers who prefer that interface), it would be  nice if when you tried to assign element or node values to std::string's without the TIXML_USE_STL macro set, it warned the user. not a big deal (maybe others have mentioned it before too or there is a way to prevent it / anticipate it). but in certain compilations, i.e., optimized ones, it will assign the const char * to the std::string and result in corrupted memory, and unless you remember the macro, it's kind of...strange.

apologize if this isn't that clear.

thanks again though for a great, clean library.

tom

[JCip]

Could you give an example of code that would cause a warning? The following code should not compile:

const char *valc;
std::string valstr;
valc = valstr;

If that's what you mean then the compiler should already be warning you about it. The following code should compile and behave correctly:

const char *valc = "hamsters";
std::string valstr;
valstr = valc;

If that's what you mean then it shouldn't cause any problems.