HEllo Everybody.....

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i am quite ignorant of XML.....but now i have to develop a c/c++ program which reads a XML file......stored on LAN.....retreives the content of the file...and do necesarry manipulation with the retreived data......actually the xml file contains the name of an image and the coordinates of certain points in that image......so the task is to read xml file....then open the corresponding image file and plot the retreived points...in the image.........since i work in image processing..so i have written the code for opening the image and plotting the points...but since i know a little about xml....so i dont know how to reteive the name of image and coordinates from the xml file......
Please help!!!!
Thanks
Paramveer

try any one of these, but be prepared to learn lots of COM stuff. This is one case I recommend doing it in VB.

Hello
Thanks for replying...actually by C/C++ i meant Visual C++.....so instead of VB.....as you said........cant it be done easily in Visual C++....if possible tell me how to do in Visual C++......i cannot use VB...because rest of my code is in Visual C++.....please tell me by some giving some points...as to what the approach should be....instead of giving google links....
Thanks a LOT for Replying.....

>>please tell me by some giving some points...as to what the approach should be....instead of giving google links

The link I posted was incorrect -- see my next post for some good ones.

you really need to learn to do some research on your own. reading xls files isn't a simple task. The file format is a Microsoft secret, subject to change from one version of Excell to another, and requires knowedge of COM because you will be calling some Excell functions to manipulate the file, you don't do it in your program directly because you will not know the file format. If you really want to do that there is information out there that you will need to study. google is the FIRST place you should be looking and maybe a book from www.amazon.com or your local book store.

The link should have been this one. But then you could have easily found that out yourself.

And here are some others about Excel Automation

Um. I think you got it confused dragon. He is infact looking to read an XML file. So I think your first link is correct.

Well, in that case forget what I posted about Excell Automation -- it has nothing to do with XML files. Guess I must be getting senile in my old age:mrgreen:

I think Boost Libraries has some xml parsing functions that might help

Hello Everybody....
But what about the way ...how to do it....googgle gives results for xml parsers etc....please tell me how to proceed by maybe giving some points....
Thanks

I am totally confused please tell me how to proceed....
Thanks....