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What container is the best to manage XML data?

tonnot (335)
Imagine I have xml data :
<tag> value</tag> etc ....
<othertag> value value2 value_n </othertag>
etc ....

What is the best container to manage this informaction ?
A simple vector, a list, other ?

I'm going to do simple insertions, searchings, deletions.
Of course the code are going to be 'some rude'.


I know that there will be xml specific utilities, but I'd want to know your opinion.
Thanks
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LB (13399)
Considering:
<tag1>
    <tag2 param="text" stuff="things">value stuff</tag2>
    <tag2>err</tag2>
    <tag3 exists="true"></tag3>
</tag1>


You have two options:
#1:
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std::multimap //tags
<
    std::multimap //each tag
    <
        std::string, //the tag name, ex: "tag1\tag2"
        std::vector //the params
        <
            std::map //each param
            <
                std::string, //param name, ex: "stuff"
                std::string //param value, ex: "things"
            >
        >,
    std::string //tag value, ex: "value stuff"
>;

This is obviously a nightmare to deal with, and it has some issues you will have to manually account for.

#2:
Polymorphism. Have an abstract 'element' base class, then have a tag class extend it (ex tag2) and a tag group class extend it (ex tag1).
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