Im at my wits end with this XML parser!

[Salrandin]

I have to parse this XML text file
and store the items in a song object

sample text file

<song>
<id>2390</id>
<name>Nolita Fairytale</name>
<artist>Vanessa Carlton</artist>
<composer>Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins</composer>
<album>Heroes & Thieves</album>
<genre>Pop</genre>
<year>2007</year>
<type>WAV</type>
<sample rate>96000</sample rate>
<length>19698000</length>
</song>


song createSong(FILE* xmlLibrary);
song* creatLibrary(FILE* xmlLibrary, int* count);

the create Library function is supposed to use Create song
to store the album, year, genre, ...etc into a song structure
and store a song into a array(text file will have more than one song)

me and friend tried using some C++ stuff, but then my teacher
said no to that... :*(

ne help would be appreciated

[v0id]

When you say, your teacher said that you couldn't use C++, I suppose you've to do it in C?

For both language, you'll find a lot of XML-parsers - or do you've to do everything yourself?

[Salrandin]

have to do everything myself

hmm its actually an xml file

god i hate this class

[limo]

Well it's not very difficult. Here's my pseudocode

- Fuction ExtractTag(tagname), returns a char*
Scan the file for the song tag <tagname>, mark this position X
Then scan the song for the end song tag </tagname>, mark this position Y. Extract whatever is in-between these two positions X and Y and call this CONTENTS.

First scan for the tag <song>, and extract its contents, also have an array containing the tags you want to extract, e.g.
char* tags = {"id","name", whatever};
for each tag name in tags[], use ExtractTag to get its contents from CONTENTS and store it into a struct. Then jump to the next position after each complete song has been read and keep reading until EOF

[Salrandin]

o ok i see this thx!