Help - Creating XML document

[tariq]

Excuse my ignorance but this is my first hour looking at tinyxml. I am trying to create a document from scratch - not even a raw buffer to begin with. I want to create a root node and add elements to it then save the file or send it over the network etc. From looking at it it seems like you have to start with a root node and a first element cause everything seemse to be InsertAfterXXXX. Please help.

[Yves Berquin]

Here is the smallest document you can create from scratch :

   TiXmlDocument doc;
   TiXmlElement elem ("root_node");
   doc . InsertEndChild (elem);
   doc . SaveFile ("out.xml");

In TinyXML, the root element is a simple child of the document.

[Ellers]

Here's another demo. When run, this is the output:

<Message type="text">Hello World!</Message>

// nb: sourceforge removes indenting :(
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "tinyxml.h"

void test2( )
{
    TiXmlNode* node = 0;
    TiXmlElement* element = 0;

    TiXmlDocument doc;

    node = doc.LinkEndChild( new TiXmlElement( "Message" ));
    node->ToElement()->SetAttribute( "type", "text" );
    node->LinkEndChild( new TiXmlText( "Hello World!" ));

    printf( "Completed document:\n" );

    doc.Print( stdout );
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    test2( );
    return 0;
}

[tariq]

Thanks a bunch! Also is there a reverse of Parse for a document - i.e. something that gives me a raw buffer representing a document that I have already created so I can send it over the network?

[Yves Berquin]

Here is the function I'm using :
std::string get_xml_string (const TiXmlNode * XNp_ptr)
{
   std::string s;
   std::ostringstream os_stream (std::ostringstream::out);

   os_stream << * XNp_ptr;
   s = os_stream . str ();
   return s;
}

I'm quite sure there should be an easier way ... but I haven't found it yet

[Lee Thomason]

Or the slightly easier:

std::string str;
str << document0;

:)

lee

[diilbert]

THANK YOU... I needed this basic info.  I suggest adding some basic startup info to your docs.

Regards,

Diilbert