zeux/pugixml

add xml_node_type_str function for debugging and application logging

schulzer opened this issue · 3 comments

Hi, thanks for a great lib!

could something like this added to your header? Or such a helper function considered too much bloat? I know I could simply write a wrapping header which includes your lib as well as contains this function which I could include anywhere else.

inline const char* xml_node_type_str(xml_node_type arg)
{
  switch (arg)
  {
  case node_null:         return "null";
  case node_document:     return "document";
  case node_element:      return "element";
  case node_pcdata:       return "pcdata";
  case node_cdata:        return "cdata";
  case node_comment:      return "comment";
  case node_pi:           return "pi";
  case node_declaration:  return "declaration";
  case node_doctype:      return "doctype";
  }
  return "unknown";
}

Do you need this often? This seems like it's not something that should be useful super frequently because you either know the expected type of a given node or, if you're writing a function that expects arbitrary node types, you'd need to process the rest of the node data in a way that depend on the type (eg elements have names, pcdata nodes have values) in which case I'm not sure a function like the above is super helpful.

Yes and no. I use it mainly for tracing/debugging during development and think it is very handy. If I would write generic function I would use direct xml_node_type for switching/ifelse instead of the text based version, agreed anything else wouldn't be very plausible.

zeux commented

Ok - this feels like something that's very easy to provide in a separate header, and doesn't obviously match any other existing functionality in pugixml so it would probably make sense to keep it separate.