XML structure error in ofxXmlSettings?

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#1

Hi folks,

Hope I’m in the right part of the forum for this one!

I’m looking at ofxXmlSettings and am seeing some strange behaviour which doesn’t correspond with how I understand the XML standard. Specifically, there should only be one root-level element:

An example from http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

<?xml version="1.0"?> Tove Jani Reminder Don't forget me this weekend!

According to them: XML documents must contain one element that is the parent of all other elements. This element is called the root element.

But in ofxXmlSettings.c it goes in search of:

//lets see how many tags there are in the xml file

and then the write operation keeps appending these root elements and I end up with a mySettings.xml that looks like this:

389 367 383 360 141 209 48.343750 136.265625 -87.000000 164 203

This kind of XML structure doesn’t appear to be correct to me and the ofxXmlSettings doesn’t appear to be looking for a root element in reading or writing a root element when saving?

Any thoughts?

#2
**** 164 203
#3

Ta, I’m not too worried about that . It’s more the missing root element that concerns me.

#4

yes, that’s not correct, but the underlying library, doesn’t really know in which level you are working, so if for example you had all of that inside a tag the structure would be correct. you need to take care yourself of generating a root and then under that all the other tags

#5

Thanks for the confirmation, Arturo - good to know I wasn’t missing anything…

Maybe I can take a look at changing the ofxXmlSettings example behaviour to correspond with valid XML structure… :slight_smile: