newbie question

[Anonymous]

i have XML file like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<declarations>
    <item id="track04">
        <component>
            <resource ref="track04.mp3">
        </component>
    </item>
</declaration>

and i want to put in variable value of resource element of ref atribute.
can someone help me?!?!?

[Yves Berquin]

First of all, you have 3 syntax errors in your XML file !

Here is a corrected version :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<declarations>
   <item id="track04">
      <component>
         <resource ref="track04.mp3" />
      </component>
   </item>
</declarations>

You need to close all items carefully :
- <?xml ... need to be closed by ?>
- <declarations> need to be closed by </declarations> with a 's'
- <resource> need to be closed by a '/' as there is no child

When you solve all this, you can use the following  (assuming your project defines TIXML_USE_STL

#include "tinyxml.h"

int main ()
{
   TiXmlDocument doc;
   doc . LoadFile ("sample.xml");

   TiXmlHandle docHandle (&doc);
   TiXmlElement * child;

   child = docHandle . FirstChild ("declarations")
                . FirstChild ("item")
                . FirstChild ("component")
                . FirstChild ("resource")
                . Element();
   if ( child )
   {
      std::string attribute = child -> Attribute ("ref");
      // .. do something with attribute
   }
   return 0;
}

[Anonymous]

OKEY i fixed my XML code.
but i'm doing this on PocketPC, and i'm getting error on:
std::string attribute = child -> Attribute ("ref");

[Yves Berquin]

I guess you don't have proper STL support.
In this case, you can get rid of that line and process
child -> Attribute ("ref") as a const char *
You must also undefine the TIXML_USE_STL in your project

[Anonymous]

can you be more accurate with code i have to put in instead

[Yves Berquin]

1. You do not define TIXML_USE_STL for your project anymore.
2. You change the line

std::string attribute = child -> Attribute ("ref");

by

const char * attribute = child -> Attribute ("ref");

[Anonymous]

now i have the value of ref in atribute variable?

how can i use CreateProcess to start playing that file with media player?

[Ellers]

windows ... you may be able to avoid calling CreateProcess() by instead using ShellExecute()/ShellExecuteEx(). This will do the same thing as if the user double clicked on the file.

eg from MSDN:

ShellExecute(handle, NULL, "music.mp3", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

HTH