glistplugins/gipxml

TinyXML2 component for GlistEngine

gipXml

Xml component for GlistEngine.

Requirements

• GlistEngine.
• Any program that can read/write XML file type.
• Windows, Linux, or MacOS operating system.

Installation

1. Open file explorer and create necessary folders:

• On Windows:
  • C:\dev\glist\glistplugins
• On macOS
  • ~/dev/glist/glistplugins
• On Linux
  • ~/dev/glist/glistplugins

2. Clone Plugin :

First of all fork this repo at right up corner.

Open command line(cmd.exe or bash) and go to the glistplugins folder by the command.

• On Windows:

  cd C:\dev\glist\glistplugins

• On macOS:

  cd ~/dev/glist/glistplugins

• On macOS:

  cd ~/dev/glist/glistplugins

Clone the gipXml repo by writing this commands on command line:

git clone https://github.com/yourgithubusername/gipXml.git

3. Set Up Plugin

Add "gipXml" in GlistApp's CMakelists.txt's line where it write "set(PLUGINS)" (Like "set(PLUGINS gipXml)").

How to Use

Only requirement to use the plugin is to include the header file of "gipXml" plugin.

Functions

• bool load(std::string fullpath) :

  Loads the XML from fullpath.

• bool loadXml(std::string xmlpath) :

  Loads the XML from file path.

• void parseXml() :

  Parsing for string that contains XML.

• gipXmlNode* getRootNode() :

  Gets the root node by calling FirstChild function of XMLDocument. It will return a pointer to the XMLNode class.

• gipXmlNode* getSiblingNode(gipXmlNode* xmlNode) :

  Iterates the node by calling NextSibling() function of XMLNode.

• gipXmlNode* getChildNode(gipXmlNode* xmlNode) :

  Gets the child level node of the current node by calling FirstChild() function of XMLNode.

• std::string getTagName(gipXmlNode* xmlNode) :

  Gets the Tag name of the Node using Name() function of XMLElement class.

• std::string getAttribute(gipXmlNode* xmlNode, std::string attributeName) :

  Gets the values of the attributes of elements using the Attribute() function by giving the attribute name as parameter.