Irrlicht Engine

since i included some code to read the level filename from an xml file,
the program crashes with a segfault before it's done with the xml-read loop!
after looking through my code a million times and finding nothing that would
cause this(i think), i tried running the tutorial.9(meshviewer),
which also uses the xml reader, and it does the same thing!
is the xml-reader broken for linux?
do i need to change something? whatsup?

Same problem here. Even when I managed to avoid crashes (by creating the file in windows notepad), then the reader simply falls in an endless loop. Rigth now, XML (both read and write) is useless.

You could always use TinyXML, that's what I am going to do until a few things have been ironed out with the internal XML reader.

Make sure the XML file is saved as Unicode, and not ANSI.

saving as unicode doesn't make any difference!(i think it was saved as unicode in the first place anyway)

I have created a workaround to the issue by forcing the xml read loop to end after a number ov iterations.

Simple method:

int i;
i=0;
while(xml && xml->read() and i<255)
{
i++;

I am going to try a more complex method - including an end tag in the xml file, and set a break variable when the program reads that tag.

complex method :

while(xml && xml->read() and Is_Set_breakXML!="set")
{
//read xml file,
if (core::stringw("breakXML") == xml->getNodeName())
{
Is_Set_breakXML="set";
}
}

using a break tag doesnt works, at least under linux. I tried that long time ago

it works fine. I just tried the second method using this code from tyn's 2080 demo:

// here is XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<level X="40" Y="40" tileset="DeadPlanet">

<addClutter TileX="18" TileY="10" Level="0" SubMat="0" Type="1" />

<addCharacter Faction="1" PosX="33" PosY="34" Move="10" Time="60" />

<changeTileTexture TileX="6" TileY="6" Level="0" SubMat="4" />

<endXMLread/>

</level>

// here is c++

CString foo;
while(xml && xml->read() and foo!="set")
{
switch(xml->getNodeType())
{
case io::EXN_ELEMENT:
{
if (core::stringw("endXMLread") == xml->getNodeName())
{
foo="set";
}

...
}
}
}

I'm wondering what the problem is. It must be that the XML->read() function is constantly returning true when it should return a false when it parses the entire XML document and thus end the loop. At least there is this workaround, the method just above seems the most sensible.