boost::property_tree XML pretty printing

by

The solution was to add the trim_whitespace flag to the call to read_xml:

#include <boost/property_tree/ptree.hpp>
#include <boost/property_tree/xml_parser.hpp>

int main( void )
{
    // Create an empty property tree object
    using boost::property_tree::ptree;
    ptree pt;

    // reading file.xml
    read_xml("file.xml", pt, boost::property_tree::xml_parser::trim_whitespace );

    // writing the unchanged ptree in file2.xml
    boost::property_tree::xml_writer_settings<char> settings('\t', 1);
    write_xml("file2.xml", pt, std::locale(), settings);

    return 0;
}

The flag is documented here but the current maintainer of the library (Sebastien Redl) was kind enough to answer and point me to it.

More Related Contents:

  1. Serializing and deserializing JSON with Boost
  2. Creating JSON arrays in Boost using Property Trees
  3. Why do I need strand per connection when using boost::asio?
  4. Weighted random numbers
  5. Example for boost shared_mutex (multiple reads/one write)?
  6. Is this behavior of vector::resize(size_type n) under C++11 and Boost.Container correct?
  7. Magic number in boost::hash_combine
  8. boost_1_60_0 .zip installation in windows
  9. demote boost::function to a plain function pointer
  10. C++ – Why is boost::hash_combine the best way to combine hash-values?
  11. Boost C++ Serialization overhead
  12. Parse quoted strings with boost::spirit
  13. Boost random number generator
  14. Microsecond resolution timestamps on Windows
  15. Using Boost to read and write XML files
  16. boost asio ssl async_shutdown always finishes with an error?
  17. Boost async_* functions and shared_ptr’s
  18. Thread safe implementation of circular buffer
  19. Does delete work with pointers to base class?
  20. Self-unrolling macro loop in C/C++
  21. boost.python not supporting parallelism?
  22. Is it smart to replace boost::thread and boost::mutex with c++11 equivalents?
  23. C++11 equivalent to boost shared_mutex
  24. C++ Thread Pool [closed]
  25. How to print boost::any to a stream?
  26. Building boost with Visual Studio 2013 (Express)
  27. C++ Serialization Performance
  28. Calculate mean and standard deviation from a vector of samples in C++ using Boost
  29. How to enable_shared_from_this of both parent and derived
  30. Conversion from boost::shared_ptr to std::shared_ptr?

Leave a Comment