Remove all xml tags from a std::string

Question

I have a std::string xmlString = "<out><return>Hello</return></out>" and I want to remove all of the tags! (without an additional library, except tinyXML -> already loaded)

result -> Hello

Thx

Answer 1

Possible solution:

std::string ClassA::ParseXMLOutput(std::string &xmlBuffer)
{
    bool copy = true;
    std::string plainString = "";   
    std::stringstream convertStream;

    // remove all xml tags
    for (int i=0; i < xmlBuffer.length(); i++)
    {                   
        convertStream << xmlBuffer[i];

        if(convertStream.str().compare("<") == 0) copy = false;
        else if(convertStream.str().compare(">") == 0) 
        {
            copy = true;
            convertStream.str(std::string());
            continue;
        }

        if(copy) plainString.append(convertStream.str());       

        convertStream.str(std::string());
    }

    return plainString;
}