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DeveloperX · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: parsing xml.......

if anyone here has already figured this out, I would severely appreciate the assistance.

I have an xml file that I'd like to parse using c++

the format of my file is such as this:

Ninkazu · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

http://www.libxml.org/
Bam.

LeoDraco · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject:

There is also libxml++, which is a very nice OO wrapper around libxml2 (in my opinion, it makes using libxml a lot easier). You could also probably hack something together using either boost::serialization (possible, but probably difficult to do for what you want) or boost::spirit. There are also a number of XML parsers (both SAX and DOM) written on top of Spirit, so you could probably snag one of those.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

this is going to sound dumb.......

but I cannot seem to find the required files to download for libxml
nor libxml++

could someone post the direct links to the files I would need?
please?

I don't want to sound lazy, cause I'm not. I'm just confused cause I'm used to "download this and use" type of third paty sources.

libxml seems to have tons of little sections that each have dependencies...I'm clueless.

Please, if someone would kindly take the time to give me a headstart on this, it would be great.
many thanks in advance.
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Nodtveidt · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the wonderful world of mismanaged open source projects.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:55 am Post subject:

LeoDraco · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

The latest version of libxml++ (which is 2.14) can be found here (which really wasn't that difficult to find; it was linked to off of the website I linked against). Although, you probably will run into problems, if you are doing something on Windows, as the library does make use of some GNOME functionality. (Heh, I forgot about this when I posted.)

As for libxml2: if you were using a proper development environment, you could probably just squeeze by by asking your package manager to install libxml2 for you. (E.g., in the Fedora Core's, you would just need to run, "yum install libxml2", and it would go about the process of downloading and installing all of the dependencies for you.) However, if you are developing under a bad development environment, as linked to off of libxml's download page, the location for the binaries should be here, although the server appears to be down, at the moment.
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zenogais · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

If you'd like another alternative library, I personally use TinyXML. It's the simplest library I've found for parsing XML in C++, and I've used it on several different projects quite successfully.

RedSlash · Mage Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 331

I've used TinyXML and I agree its much more simpler than libxml, thought libxml is more full featured.

DeveloperX · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

bleh....tinyxml is quite confusing.....

hrm, perhaps I will just roll my own routines to parse this crap..
or maybe try a different format altogether.
thanks guys for your help.
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