Hi Raymond, Steele, Raymond <[email protected]> writes:
> I am iterating through an XML node with a many children. For each child, > I have to store it into an associated stuct. I am looking for a quicker > way to do this. So far, I've converted each child's text content from > string to the correct type defined in the struct. The struct members > are of a variety of types so I think that I have to write the code > to determine what type it has to be converted, as I did below. > > Is there a better way to do this? Yes, XML data binding allows you to automate this provided you have a schema describing your XML vocabulary. You can, for example, try CodeSynthesis XSD[1] which uses Xerces-C++ underneath. Or, for a lighter-weight, dependency-free variant, you can try CodeSynthesis XSD/e[2]. Both of these tools can either generate the struct's (actually, classes) for you or you can use them to extract the data into your own structures. [1] http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsd/ [2] http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsde/ Boris -- Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog Compiler-based ORM system for C++ http://codesynthesis.com/products/odb Open-source XML data binding for C++ http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd XML data binding for embedded systems http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde
