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Hello guys,

I'm working on a new project in C++ and I need to parse some XML files, by reading some articles on the web I found that the most commonly used one is the Xerces library.

However, I'm currently having troubles. Can anyone tell me how can I include an external library - in order to use and possibly overwrite its code?

I also wanted to know whether I need to work with the source files or a binary. Before I was assigned to this project I was programming in Java however I have to do this in c++ and things are a bit different.

Thanks in advance,
Liza

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I'm using windows vista :( which makes thing evern worse...

I've looked at the link you posted and to be honest I've read everything in that site, nothing works for me!!

The first time that I downloaded the source zip and tried to include one of the header files in one of my files I received a number of errors saying that there were no such files in the directory. After that I said that I may include the file in the wrong way, but that wasn't the problem.

Then I went back to that site and followed the instructions about validating the copy that I downloaded, something that never happened. I don't know if it's because of my OS.

I even tried it with a binary where I had to add the bin directory to my PATH system variable.

Have you used Xerces in the past?

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Do you think that the backward clashes that windows uses might be the problem?

The xerces library was written under UNIX which uses forward clashes to define a subdirectory.

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It works both ways in Windows.

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I'm using windows vista :( which makes thing evern worse...

I've looked at the link you posted and to be honest I've read everything in that site, nothing works for me!!

The first time that I downloaded the source zip and tried to include one of the header files in one of my files I received a number of errors saying that there were no such files in the directory. After that I said that I may include the file in the wrong way, but that wasn't the problem.

Then I went back to that site and followed the instructions about validating the copy that I downloaded, something that never happened. I don't know if it's because of my OS.

I even tried it with a binary where I had to add the bin directory to my PATH system variable.

Have you used Xerces in the past?

i see :?

actually no, I've never used Xerces, i just gave you that link 'cuz it's what you asked for :)

Why not try TinyXML?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml/
http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxmldocs/tutorial0.html

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I'm afraid that I can't use the tinyXml library due to the fact that I need to use SAX and not DOM.

I need to be able and read part of a file instead of reading the whole file and then constuct an object from that file.

i see, is libXML++ any good, or do you have the same prob?

http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/html/index.html

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I also have tried to build the xerces library.
After running,

$ ./configure --disable-static CC=gcc-4.1 CXX=g++-4.1 CFLAGS=-O3 CXXFLAGS=-O3

I got

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether to use rpath... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/home/hasrul/XML/xerces-3.1.1':
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

then I always got error with the 'make check' or 'make install'
Can I start linking (using) the library without the make?
If there's any way to fix this..

Thanks.

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