This is a simple XML parser written in C++ as static library. Its possible that the parser is not complete and may not work for all XML files. It was a excercise to learn more about shared libraries but static seems to be recommended.
- Tags
- Attributes
- CDATA
- Comments
- Declaration
- Manipulate and convert back to a xml string
Example CMakeLists.txt for the main program
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.30)
project(xmlparserrunner CXX)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
include_directories(/Volumes/Expansion/xmlparser-cpp/lib/includes)
add_executable(xmlparserrunner main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(xmlparserrunner /Volumes/Expansion/xmlparser-cpp/cmake-build-debug/libxmlparser.a)Example code for usage
#include <iostream>
#include "XMLParser.h"
int main() {
// Load the dynamic library
auto* myClassInstance = new xmlparser::XMLParser();
myClassInstance->parse(R"(
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core">
<f:view>
<h:outputLabel value="Hello, world"/>
</f:view>
</html>
)");
std::vector<xmlparser::Node*> myClassInstanceElements = myClassInstance->getElementsByName("html");
for (xmlparser::Node* node : myClassInstanceElements) {
//std::cout << "Node: " << node->name << std::endl;
node->attributes["id"] = "test";
auto* child = new xmlparser::Node();
child->name = "child";
node->children.push_back(child);
std::cout << node->toXML() << std::endl;
}
//std::cout << myClassInstance->toXML() << std::endl;
std::string version = myClassInstance->getDeclarationAttribute("xml", "version");
std::string encoding = myClassInstance->getDeclarationAttribute("xml", "encoding");
std::cout << "Version: " << version << std::endl;
std::cout << "Encoding: " << encoding << std::endl;
myClassInstance->destroy();
return 0;
}