tinyxml2 XMLElement constructor private?

Question

In TinyXml you could create an Element e.g. TiXmlElement("tag"), but in TinyXml2 there is no public constructor for XMLElement?

How do you create elements ?

Answer 1

Similar to the existing answer, I wrote this helper utility for my application:

tinyxml2::XMLElement* CChristianLifeMinistryEntry::InsertNewElement(tinyxml2::XMLDocument& rDoc, tinyxml2::XMLElement*& pParent, LPCSTR strElement, CString strValue)
{
    XMLElement *pElement = rDoc.NewElement(strElement);

    USES_CONVERSION;

    if (pElement == nullptr)
        AfxThrowMemoryException();

    pElement->SetText(CT2CA(strValue, CP_UTF8));
    pParent->InsertEndChild(pElement);

    return pElement;
}

It automatically adds a new child element to the end of the list. In addition, it sets the text value for the element.

Answer 2

You create an element within the context of the document, so call

tinyxml2::XMLElement * tinyxml2::XMLDocument::NewElement (const char * name).

E.g. to create a new element and add it as a child of an existing element e

XMLElement * new = e -> GetDocument() -> NewElement ("tag");
e -> InsertFirstChild (new);

Or, to do it in a single step, you could look up append_element in my tinyxml2 extension