Re: replace string in stream

From:
"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:43:47 +0200
Message-ID:
<#gnu6yljIHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
"June Lee" wrote:

I have a function that read data byte and drmp to a file

how can I change the string <givenname xsi:nil='true'/> to
<givenname>.</givenname>

======================
bool dump;
std::ofstream dumpfile;

int my_block_reader(void *userdata, const char *buf, size_t len)
{
if (dump == false) {
    if (strnicmp(buf, "<?xml", 5) == 0) {
[...]


If you need to process and transform XML files, then doing it by
hand is a dead end. You should use appropriate technology for
that. In order to reead and parse XML files use an XML parser; in
order to process XML files use and XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations) engine. For example, for the following
XML file:

------- XMLFile1.xml -------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root
    xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'

    <givenname xsi:nil='true'/>
</root>
----------------------------

You could use this transform:

------- XSLTFile1.xslt -----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="givenname[@xsi:nil='true']">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

----------------------------

Then after applying the transformation you have the output:

------- output -------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    <givenname>.</givenname>
</root>
----------------------

Here are some example of using MSXML with C++:

"Program with DOM in C/C++ Using Smart Pointer Class Wrappers"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms757060(vs.85).aspx

HTH
Alex

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