Question

I’m currently trying to recursively loop through a tree structure and serialize it to a string using (the language) C. I’m a real novice when it comes to C (Coming from a Java, C#, action-script background) and I’m having trouble getting to grips with things in general.

Should I use a library to help generate the XML? How do I implement recursion using C?

Thanks

Answer 1

Should I use a library to help generate the XML?

Yes. libxml, minixml and others. Just google to know others, but I’d go with libxml.

How do I implement recursion using C?

Well, implementing recursion itself is really simple. For example, this is recursive:

int fact(int i)
{
    return i ? i*fact(i-1) : 1;
}

The problem comes with how complex you want to be. But for XML, use a library.