creating TiXmlText objects

[lvsti]

I have to store lots of program-generated integers as xml, for example like this: <tag>1234</tag>... I've been using the following code till now:

TiXmlDocument doc(filename);
TiXmlNode *node;
int number;
char *temp;
...
while () {
    number = giveMeANumber();
    temp = new char[5];
    sprintf(temp,"%d\0",number);
   
    node = new TiXmlText(temp);
    doc.InsertEndChild(*node);
}
doc.SaveFile();
...

However, i soon realized that this way i lose control of the 'temp' values, causing memory leaks, since TiXmlText doesn't do anything with its 'value' member when destructed. On the other hand, neither can i skip the repeated allocations of 'temp', since TiXmlText's constructor (namely the SetValue() member) assigns 'value' the given pointer and does not copy the character array it points to.

Any ideas?

[Lee Thomason]

Actually, it does copy the characters it points to:

The constructor calls:

void SetValue(const char * _value) { value = _value;}

Which uses the rather deceptive C++ trick of a copy constructor, which is what threw you off I suspect. But value is a string:

    TIXML_STRING    value;

so it's a copy.

So following the Text node creation,

delete [] temp

should be fine.

lee