c++xmltinyxml

How to use TinyXml to parse for a specific element


I would like to parse a group of elements out of a TinyXml output. Essentially, I need to pick out any port element's "portid" attribute of the port has a state of "open" (shown below for port 23).

What's the best way to do this? Here's the (simplified) listing for the output from TinyXml:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<nmaprun>
    <host>
        <ports>
            <port protocol="tcp" portid="22">
                <state state="filtered"/>
            </port>
            <port protocol="tcp" portid="23">
                <state state="open "/>
            </port>
            <port protocol="tcp" portid="24">
                <state state="filtered" />
            </port>
            <port protocol="tcp" portid="25">
                <state state="filtered" />
            </port>
            <port protocol="tcp" portid="80">
                <state state="filtered" />
            </port>
        </ports>
    </host>
</nmaprun>

Solution

  • This will roughly do it:

        TiXmlHandle docHandle( &doc );
    
        TiXmlElement* child = docHandle.FirstChild( "nmaprun" ).FirstChild( "host" ).FirstChild( "ports" ).FirstChild( "port" ).ToElement();
    
        int port;
        string state;
        for( child; child; child=child->NextSiblingElement() )
        {
    
            port = atoi(child->Attribute( "portid"));
    
            TiXmlElement* state_el = child->FirstChild()->ToElement();
    
            state = state_el->Attribute( "state" );
    
            if ("filtered" == state)
                cout << "port: " << port << " is filtered! " << endl;
            else
                cout << "port: " << port << " is unfiltered! " << endl;
        }