As a side note, not related to your question.

I have a config xml file that I actually created with the xml lib so I know it's valid ;-)

You probably mean "well-formed", "valid" means something else in XML context:P

Out of curiosity, why do you use CDATA? If I go through your example data I see no reason to use it. The CDATA mechanism was thought up to let you quote fragments of text containing markup characters. But it doesn't really work that well. One of the biggest strengths of XML is the data validation capability (I'm thinking XMLSchema here). Putting stuff in like CDATA, by definition ignored by the parser, doesn't help in that respect.

Cheers

Harry

In reply to Re: xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly by dHarry
in thread xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly by itsscott

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