Question about TiXMLElement. Print content on screen

[jgalan]

I would like to print some error output when a XML definition is not properly formed. Then, I see in the code we usually access the fields using GetParameter("fieldName", ele) where ele is a TiXMLElement.

Now, if the fieldName is not properly defined I would like to print out in screen the full ele definition.

Having a look to the TiXML API

http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxmldocs/classTiXmlElement.html

I would guess what I need is just to call the GetText method.

However, if I do ele->GetText() it prints nothing.

Do you know the right way to do this?

[nkx]

GetText actualy returns the text of the xml secion, not the string content of it.
The text is the part of the xml content that is not surrounded by <, /> pairs:

To get the full string content, you can use TRestMetadata::ElementToString() method

[jgalan]

Ok, thanks! ElementToString works smoothly.