Simple XML tag validator

From:
kapa <kapa79@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:56:12 +0300
Message-ID:
<4618f44f$0$24618$9b536df3@news.fv.fi>
Hi

The program is suppose to search tags from xml file and determine does
every tag have a pair, meaning if there is a <start> there must be
</start>, and make count how many there is that particular type. Or in
case <foo/> just take notice and count.

Ok, I have managed to make the program return the tags like below, and
return the value how many tags there is:

things
basket
fruit
/fruit
bug/
/basket
foo/
/things

Now my problem is that I really don't now how to compare is there a
match, and if found how to make sure the found pair is no longer compared.

Now I have put the tags into a two-dimensional array. But I'm wondering
should I use stack or what, and how? My head is empty at the moment, so
any help would be appreciate.

bool getTag( ifstream &in, char tag[], int taglen ) ;
void cleanTag( char tag[], int taglen, int &count ) ;
void printTags( char tags[][30], int count ) ;

int main()
{
  int count = 0 ;
  char tag[150] ;
  char tags[50][30];

  ifstream in ;
  in.open( "Test1.xml" ) ;

  if( !in.is_open() )
    cout << "Can't open the file!\n" ;
  else
    {
      while( getTag( in, tag, 150 ) )
        {
          cleanTag( tag, 30, count ) ;
          if( strlen( tag ) != 0 )
            strcpy( tags[count-1], tag ) ;
        }
    }
  printTags( tags, count ) ;
  return 0 ;
}

void printTags( char tags[][30], int count )
{
  for( int i=0; i<count; i++ )
    {
      for( int j=0; tags[i][j] != '\0'; j++ )
        {
          cout << tags[i][j] ;
        }
      cout << endl ;
    }
}

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