How to read/write Xml File in C/C++?

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I need to know how to read and write Xml files in pure C++ or C.
I can't use any .Net libraries and I'm using a blank Win32 C++ Project in Visual Studio 2010.
If possible I'd like to not use any 3rd party tools/code.

Posted 5-Jul-12 8:28am

shelby67

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[no name] 5-Jul-12 14:37pm

XML file are just text files so you open a file for writing, write data to it and then close the file. What is your real question?

shelby67 5-Jul-12 14:41pm

How do I read data between tags like:

<menu>
<item id="0">Item 0</item>
</menu>

I want to retrieve the text "Item 0" if i search for the tag id.

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-05T09:08:00

Solution 1

Have a look at MSXML[^]

The header file is included with the Windows SDK:

#include <MsXml.h>

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Posted 5-Jul-12 9:08am

Espen Harlinn

Updated 5-Jul-12 10:19am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Jul-12 15:35pm

It is the answer, my 5.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 5-Jul-12 15:39pm

Thank you, Sergey!
Spending the evening fixing bugs in an application I made last autumn - I believe I was a bit tired at the time, having just finished a rather large system. I should probably have gone on a holiday before I started something new :-(

shelby67 5-Jul-12 16:09pm

I appreciate the link you gave me, but I can't seem to find a download for it. I'm under the assumption that I have ti download and import libraries into my project to get this to work.

Espen Harlinn 5-Jul-12 16:15pm

It's probably already installed on your system. Try using OleView.Exe, usually installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin" or something similar. Look for "Microsoft XML, v6.0", "Microsoft XML, v5.0", "Microsoft XML, v4.0" under type libraries.

pasztorpisti · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-05T10:57:00

Solution 2

If you don't need xml validation (dtd, xsl, ...), xml namespaces and similar fancy stuff I would recommend using tinyxml that is hassle free to put into a c++ program and is platform independent.(we use it on win32, linux, android, iOS, ...). Its a very popular "simple drop-in" library.

Posted 5-Jul-12 10:57am

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Sergey Chepurin 6-Jul-12 15:37pm

+5 for cross-platform solution, and this is a link to Tinyxml[^].