iterate through boost property tree

Question

I\'m iterating over an XML document using boost property tree and storing the results in a struct. The issue I have is that I can only get to the first \"item\" nodes and can\'t

Answer 1

I figured it out, but this is not what i would call an intuitive xml-parser library.

void parse_xml( boost::property_tree::iptree const& pt )
{
    BOOST_FOREACH(boost::property_tree::iptree::value_type const& v, pt.get_child("root.jar"))
    {
        // Show jar
        if ( boost::iequals( v.first, "" ) ) {
            std::cout << "jar : " << v.second.get("NaME") << std::endl;
        }

        if ( boost::iequals( v.first, "snack" ) )
        {
            BOOST_FOREACH(boost::property_tree::iptree::value_type const& val, v.second)
            {
                // Show snack
                if ( boost::iequals( val.first, "" ) ) {
                    std::cout << "snack : " << val.second.get("name")  << std::endl;
                }

                if ( boost::iequals(val.first, "item") )
                {
                    BOOST_FOREACH(boost::property_tree::iptree::value_type const& val2, val.second)
                    if ( boost::iequals( val2.first, "" ) ) {
                        // Show item
                        std::cout << "item : " << val2.second.get("nAmE")  << std::endl;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

If you compare the two code snippets you can see that mine is bit more regularly structured.

1. Loop over all nodes
2. process the node
3. process the "real" node.
4. repeat from step 1. inside that node.