Getting node data

Apart from structural information (parent, child nodes, attributes), nodes can have name and value, both of which are strings. Depending on node type, name or value may be absent. node_document nodes do not have a name or value, node_element and node_declaration nodes always have a name but never have a value, node_pcdata, node_cdata, node_comment and node_doctype nodes never have a name but always have a value (it may be empty though), node_pi nodes always have a name and a value (again, value may be empty). In order to get node's name or value, you can use the following functions:

const char_t* xml_node::name() const;
const char_t* xml_node::value() const;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>frames</key>
    </dict>
</plist>
        

So, I'm using pugixml, and untill now I was always able to extract the value of a node,but now there appears to be a problem:

pugi::xml_document doc;

doc.load_file("sprite_sheet.plist");

pugi::xml_node test = doc.child("plist").child("dict").child("key");

OutputDebugStringA(test.value());

There is no output. And I also used the debugger to check the values: test has the name "key", and NO value!

What is the problem?!

You are trying to access inner text not a value of an XML node. Also have a look at tinyXML2 its easy to use