struct containing vector?

From:
cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:45:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<fadc0ea7-b10f-4c4a-bf8f-b875ce91ced0@q2g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
Hi There,

I have a little issue going here:
I have a xml configuration file that looks kinda like this:
<PID>
  <DESCRIPTION>Steveston Hwy</DESCRIPTION>
  <BCAST>192.168.101.255</BCAST>
  <DESTINATION>
    <DESTNO>1531</DESTNO>
    <DESTNO>301</DESTNO>
    <DESTNO>12555</DESTNO>
  </DESTINATION>
</PID>
Now there could be various <PID> tags as well as each <PID> would
likely have multiple <DESTNO> tags.
How do I store this best in my app?
I thoughtr I'd declare a struct like this:
struct structPID
{
    string strBcast;
    string strDescription;
    vector<int> Dest;
};
and just extend the array when there's more PIDs in that file.
But when I read out the file i'm using my xml parser and i thought i'd
do something like this:
//i_PIDlist is the pointer to a variable decalred private in class
PIDClient.
bool PIDClient::readPIDConfig(string Configfile, vector<structPID>
*i_PIDlist)
{
    RSXMLParser xmlPIDData(Configfile,
                             RSXMLParser::FILE);

    if (!xmlPIDData.IsDataGood()) {
        OUTPUT(std::cerr << "Document " << conf->
                         intersectionDataFile << " is not parsed
successfully.\n";
              )
        return false;
    }

    string strPID = xmlPIDData.GetNodeData("PID"); //PID
    while (strPID.size() > 0) {
        RSXMLParser xmlPID(strPID); //PID details
        structPID tmpPID;

        tmpPID.strBcast=xmlPID.GetNodeData("BCAST");
    tmpPID.strDescription=xmlPID.GetNodeData("DESCRIPTION");

    string strDest = xmlPIDData.GetNodeData("DESTINATION");
    while(strDest.size() > 0) {
      RSXMLParser xmlPIDDest(strDest);
      xmlPIDDest.GetNodeData("DESTNO");
      tmpPID.Dest->push_back();
    }
        i_PIDlist->push_back(tmpPID);
    //delete tmpPID;
    //tmpPID=NULL;

        strPID = xmlPIDData.GetNext();
    }

    return true;
}
But there's two problems i'm seeing just right out of the bat:
If the outer while loop goes twice, how would tmpPID be re-declared?
I thought about declaring it on the heap and then calling delete in
the end of the funtion before it loops around but even then,
I would do a i_PIDlist->push_back(tmpPID) and it woudl push on a
pionter that gets ereased soon after...

Thanks for a little help and guidance here.

Ron

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