Xerces for C++ Using Visual Studio 2010

It has been long since the last updates to this blog. I am in process of using Xerces-C++ for doing some coding and am going to write some posts on that. Clearly I have to say that this is my attempt to learn and I will be making lots of mistakes as a result. Having said that I am hoping that some of the people who are experts will correct me and provide good suggestions, better solutions.

I am also happy if someone else wants to write some blog posts on this topic or general C++ as long as there are enough examples to get your point across.

My Configuration:

Visual Studio 2010

Xerces is xerces-c-3.1.1-x86-windows-vc-10.0 that I have installed (copied) at: C:\Program Files. Downloaded from http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

The following will need to be added in the properties
In Include Directories add - C:\Program Files\xerces-c-3.1.1-x86-windows-vc-10.0\include;
In Library Directories add - C:\Program Files\xerces-c-3.1.1-x86-windows-vc-10.0\lib;
In Additional dependancies add - xerces-c_3D.lib; --> Note that this is for Debug configuration, for Release configuration you will need the release .lib

I also use Notepad++ to write XML files manually, available at: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

The directory structure for the code is as follows
/
---Sample01/
---Sample02/
---XML/
   ---books.xml
   ---xyz.xml

I will be using the xml files in XML directory and if needed will write output there  
 
These programs will use XML and DOM so its a good idea to learn a bit about it. Use the link for XML and DOM.
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/default.asp

Here are some of the other sites (working list) I am following for this topic and will be referring to examples from here.

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/XML-Xerces-C.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31088/Xerces-for-C-Tutorial-Using-Visual-C
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/32762/Xerces-for-C-Using-Visual-C-Part-2