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Note that this example doesn't use error checking; working code should check for null pointers when walking an XML tree, or use XMLHandle.</p> 67<p>(The XML is an excerpt from "dream.xml").</p> 68<p><div class="fragment"><div class="line"><span class="keywordtype">int</span> example_3()</div><div class="line">{</div><div class="line"> <span class="keyword">static</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keywordtype">char</span>* xml =</div><div class="line"> <span class="stringliteral">"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"</span></div><div class="line"> <span class="stringliteral">"<!DOCTYPE PLAY SYSTEM \"play.dtd\">"</span></div><div class="line"> <span class="stringliteral">"<PLAY>"</span></div><div class="line"> <span class="stringliteral">"<TITLE>A Midsummer Night's Dream</TITLE>"</span></div><div class="line"> <span class="stringliteral">"</PLAY>"</span>;</div></div><!-- fragment --></p> 69<p>The structure of the XML file is:</p> 70<ul> 71<li> 72(declaration) </li> 73<li> 74(dtd stuff) </li> 75<li> 76Element "PLAY" <ul> 77<li> 78Element "TITLE" <ul> 79<li> 80Text "A Midsummer Night's Dream" </li> 81</ul> 82</li> 83</ul> 84</li> 85</ul> 86<p>For this example, we want to print out the title of the play. The text of the title (what we want) is child of the "TITLE" element which is a child of the "PLAY" element.</p> 87<p>We want to skip the declaration and dtd, so the method FirstChildElement() is a good choice. The FirstChildElement() of the Document is the "PLAY" Element, the FirstChildElement() of the "PLAY" Element is the "TITLE" Element.</p> 88<p><div class="fragment"><div class="line"></div><div class="line"> XMLDocument doc;</div><div class="line"> doc.Parse( xml );</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"> XMLElement* titleElement = doc.FirstChildElement( <span class="stringliteral">"PLAY"</span> )->FirstChildElement( <span class="stringliteral">"TITLE"</span> );</div></div><!-- fragment --></p> 89<p>We can then use the convenience function GetText() to get the title of the play.</p> 90<p><div class="fragment"><div class="line"> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keywordtype">char</span>* title = titleElement->GetText();</div><div class="line"> printf( <span class="stringliteral">"Name of play (1): %s\n"</span>, title );</div></div><!-- fragment --></p> 91<p>Text is just another Node in the XML DOM. And in fact you should be a little cautious with it, as text nodes can contain elements.</p> 92<pre class="fragment">Consider: A Midsummer Night's <b>Dream</b> 93</pre><p>It is more correct to actually query the Text Node if in doubt:</p> 94<p><div class="fragment"><div class="line"></div><div class="line"> XMLText* textNode = titleElement->FirstChild()->ToText();</div><div class="line"> title = textNode->Value();</div><div class="line"> printf( <span class="stringliteral">"Name of play (2): %s\n"</span>, title );</div></div><!-- fragment --></p> 95<p>Noting that here we use FirstChild() since we are looking for XMLText, not an element, and ToText() is a cast from a Node to a XMLText. </p> 96</div></div><!-- contents --> 97<!-- start footer part --> 98<hr class="footer"/><address class="footer"><small> 99Generated on Tue Nov 6 2018 09:38:26 for TinyXML-2 by  <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"> 100<img class="footer" src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen"/> 101</a> 1.8.13 102</small></address> 103</body> 104</html> 105
