Boost property tree issue when converting to Unicode

Question

Ok, first off I\'m not a C++ developer by nature; I\'ve managed to put some stuff together and it works fine, but I\'m sure through the eyes of an expert it looks like garba

Answer 1

Guessing that your problem was the same I ran into... There are wide character versions of Boost.PropertyTree for unicode support.

For Config.xml that is setup like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Zoo>
    <Monkey>
        <Food>Bananas</Food>
    </Monkey>
</Zoo>

Use code similar to this to parse it:

// Load up the property tree for wide characters
boost::property_tree::wptree pt;
boost::property_tree::read_xml("Config.xml", pt);

// Iterate
BOOST_FOREACH(wptree::value_type const& v, pt.get_child(L"Zoo"))
{
    if( v.first == L"Monkey" )
    {
        wstring foodType = v.second.get<wstring>(L"Food");
    }
}