Loading xml file from another directory

[AllWrightNow]

I am using Borland C++Builder 5.0 on WindowsXP.
I have a directory structure that includes separate directories for different files:
\exe - executables
\src - source files
\tinyxml - tinyxml files
\trial - any *.xml files

I declare a Sting and enter the file name incluing the path for the "xml" file then pass it to LoadFile() as shown below.

void TXMLEquipmentDocument::Open(String TheDocument)
{
  const char *FileName;

  FileName =  TheDocument.c_str();
  TiXmlDocument doc(FileName);
  LoadOK = doc.LoadFile();
  if (LoadOK)
   {
      ..................
   }
  else
   {
     ...................
   }
}

The tinyxml.cpp function "LoadFile( const char* filename, TiXmlEncoding encoding )" fails to open the file (line 1017) appearing not to recognise the filename with the associated path.  If I open an "xml" file located in the "\exe" directory everything works ok.

Can you offer me a solution that allows me to use separate directory locations?

Regards  Tony

[Yves Berquin]

I guess you have an error in the path you use. Are you sure you double the backslashes ("..\\trial\\tr1.xml") in your case?
I am often using full path to files, and never had any problem with TinyXML in that area.

[AllWrightNow]

Yves

Thanks for your quick reply and yes the double backslashes ("...\\trial\\myfile.xml") are in place.  I also recompiled my program after setting one of the first lines of tinyxml.h to "#define TINYXML_USE_STL".  Are there any other options that need to be set?  Are there any Borland specific issues?

Regards Tony

[David Jorge]

Have you debug your program to see what is the value of FileName?
I have never had problems and load xml files from different locations also.

[dcoy]

I guess it could be that the Working Directory is not set, and it might not default to the \exe dir.
I've had a similar problem in VS6 and setting the Working Directory for the executable to the same dir as the executable solved it for me.