Re: xmlfile load failed

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:23:28 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<40181cad-bd08-49ae-afc1-992f75ca7f4f@39g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On 10 Dez., 06:31, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

See below...

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:19:26 -0800 (PST), mfc <mfcp...@googlemail.com> wro=

te:

Hi,

I`ve a strange problem, according to my xmlfile load function (it
always works; but today it always fails: I didn`t change anything on
the xmfile load code.

If I try to debug the load method always fails on my computer (but
that`s the only computer where it failed); if I start the exe without
the use of visual studio everything works as expected (the xmfile will
be loaded - no problems). I`ve tried to debug this project on another
computer and it works (without failing to load the file).

In the debug window I get some first-chance exceptions by calling this
line:
vResult = m_pXMLDoc->load(bstrFileName);

1. First chance exception: NT_close was called
2. wininet.dll and normaliz.dll will be unloaded again

The xmlfile is definitely available.


****
You are basing this assertion on what evidence? Note: if you say "I ca=

n see it in Windows

Explorer" I could care less. You are not using Windows Explorer to loa=

d it. You are

specifying a filename. We need to see that precise filename. If you=

 know the XML file

exists, you must tell us WHERE it exists.


The xmlfile exists in the current working directory of the visual
studio project. I`ve also tried to load a nearly empty xmlfile which
must be valid (but it failed)...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Usercfg>
</Usercfg>

****
Since at no point did you show what was in the bstrFileName (I wonder why=

 the silly 'bstr'

prefix is used, because either it is a BSTR or it isn't, and if it isn't =

it won't compile,

CString strFileName (_T("userdata.xml"));
if(!(XmlFile.LoadUserXml(strFileName)))
       return FALSE;

BOOL CXmlFile::LoadUserXml(CString strFileName)
{

    MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocument2Ptr m_pXMLDoc;
    MSXML2::IXMLDOMElementPtr m_pDocRoot;

    // Create the XML Document
    HRESULT hr = m_pXMLDoc.CreateInstance(CLSID_DOMDocument);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        _com_error er(hr);
        AfxMessageBox(er.ErrorMessage());
        return FALSE;
    }

               _bstr_t bstrFileName;
    bstrFileName = strFileName.AllocSysString();
    XmlFileName = strFileName;

               VARIANT_BOOL bLoaded = m_pXMLDoc->load(bstrFileName);
    if (bLoaded == VARIANT_TRUE)
    {// now that the document is loaded, we need to initialize the root
pointer
        m_pDocRoot = m_pXMLDoc->documentElement;
    }
    else
    {
        AfxMessageBox(_T("XML File FAILED to load!"));
        return FALSE;
    }

//and so on
}

So if you want help in analyzing the problem, you have to state the whole=

 problem and all

the conditions, which you did not.

Now, a first-chance exception suggests that the XML component failed inte=

rnally, and that

leads to ideas that either the XML is ill-formed, and caused a problem, o=

r there really is

a bug in the XML reader. But since you don't know what the exception i=

s (e.g., XML syntax

exception), and you did not tell us what Result was, so it is going to be=

 very difficult

to guess.


The whole thing works until yesterday... and yesterday, I didn`t
change anything in the xml part. I have no clue why the xml reader
MSXML won`t work.... It seems that there is /was no wrong setting in
the visual studio, because I reset all my settings to the default
ones, and the problem occured, too.

****
If it failed to load, there should be a way to find out why. Alas, it =

appears the XML

interface was designed by children and there is no equivalent of GetLastE=

rror to find out,

in the case of failure, where it failed, why it failed, or anything usefu=

l. But this is

not surprising, given the fact that within Microsoft, design has apparent=

ly been turned

over to 12-year-olds. Mature programmers would insist that if there wa=

s an error, the

nature of the error, the filename, and the line (and even the character p=

osition within

the line) on which the error occurred should all be made available. Be=

havior like this is

why most of us who use XML try mightily to avoid ever touching the Micros=

oft XML

components!


Yes I also tried to find the problem using GetLastError() or a method
from the MSXML but as you pointed out, there`s no such method...

Which xml reader would you suggest me to use? If I`m right you wrote
your own xml reader, but is there also a good one available?
TinyXML???

best regards
Hans

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