xml attribute with multiple values

[Vel0city]

Hello,
I stored vector and color information in xml and I'm not sure how to read them using the irrXML reader as the according attributes have multiple values.
An example looks like this:

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<Light color="0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 1.0"/>

I know it could be all read to a string using getAttributeValue("color"). Is there a possibility to get the numbers out of an irrlicht string?
the getAttributeValueAsFloat command sadly only returns the first number.

An older discussion from 2007 didn't contain information which I could understand on my level.

Can somebody point me in the right direction how this could be done?

[CuteAlien]

Could probably do something like:

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float r,g,ba;
swscanf_s( xml->getAttributeValueSafe(L"color"), L"%f,%f,%f,%f", &r, &g, &b, &a);
 

Untested and instead of swscanf_s you probably need swscanf on non VS platforms.

[bkeys]

You may also be better off using an external library for this. Personally I use TinyXML2 for my XML parsing. TinyXML2 is also under a permissive license so you can use it for any purpose as well.

[CuteAlien]

@bbeys: Tinyxml is a DOM reader while Irrlicht xml is a SAX reader. Both have their use - just different approaches to working with xml (you can implement a DOM reader on top of a SAX reader).