How can I read an XML file into a buffer in C?

Question

I want to read an XML file into a char *buffer using C.

What is the best way to do this?

How should I get started?

Answer 1

You can use the stat() function to get the file size. then allocate a buffer using malloc after it reading the file using fread.

the code will be something like that:

struct stat file_status;
char *buf = NULL;
FILE * pFile;

stat("tmp.xml", &file_status);
buf = (char*)malloc(file_status.st_size);
pFile = fopen ("tmp.xml","r");
fread (buf,1,file_status.st_size,pFile);

fclose(pFile);