TinyXML2/C++ - create empty element

Question

I'm trying to create XML file with TinyXML2.

string _text = "<body><foo><foo2>text</foo2></foo></body>";
XMLElement *body = xmlDoc->NewElement("body");
body->SetText(_text.c_str());

Give me:

<body>
    &lt;body&gt;&lt;foo&gt;&lt;foo2&gt;text&lt;foo2/&gt;&lt;foo/&gt;&lt;body/&gt;
<body>

Is any way how to create empty element without top "body" and replace escape characters with <,>?

escape charackters solved: XMLDocument( bool processEntities = true, Whitespace = PRESERVE_WHITESPACE ) -> XMLDocument xmlDoc( false ); — gomess, Apr 02 '17 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '17 at 22:57

You've created a top level element <body> then added another <body> element, with child elements, below it. You can't create an 'empty' element but you can add your string directly into an empty document:

XMLDocument doc;
doc .Parse ("<body><foo><foo2>text</foo2></foo></body>");

TinyXML2/C++ - create empty element

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