Current mood:

giddy

operator + overloading == HOT
Last night, after trying to figure out why Xalan-C++ 1.8 was not behaving when used in my SiteMapper program on Windows, saurik showed me his syntax for XPath that is in his Menes C++ Library Thingy: *document/"page"/"section"/"list". Yes, that's the division operator used with XML nodes and strings, hot! So rather than trying more with evil and verbose Xalan/Xerces XPath, I decided to change my program to use his syntax. This resulted in a change from code like this:

    XalanSourceTreeInit init;
    XalanSourceTreeDOMSupport support;
    XalanSourceTreeParserLiaison liaison;
    XPathEvaluator evaluator;

    support.setParserLiaison(&liaison);

    XalanDOMString file(siteMap.c_str());
    LocalFileInputSource source(file.c_str());

    XalanDocument* document = liaison.parseXMLStream(source);

    if (document == 0) return;

    XalanNode* list = evaluator.selectSingleNode(support, document,
        XalanDOMString("/page/section/list").c_str());

    if (list == 0) return;

    comment << evaluator.evaluate(support, document,
        XalanDOMString("comment()").c_str())->str();

to clean and simple code like this:

    ext::Handle<xml::Document> document(xml::Parse(siteMap));
    ext::Handle<xml::Node> list(*document/"page"/"section"/"list");

    comment = *document/"comment()";

which does basically the same thing (comment was changed from an ostringstream to just a string).
We then went on to get it working right and solve the fun link errors on FreeBSD.

ext::Handle<xml::Document> document(xml::Parse(siteMap));
ext::Handle<xml::Element> list(*document/"page"/"section"/"list");

comment = *document/"comment()";