Not an issue but a question about copying a XMLElement

[bigguiness]

I have bumbled my way along with using this library and everything has worked great.

Now I have a need to store a XMLElement from the document for processing later in my code.

In general my XML document looks like this (with simplified attributes):
<tags>
<tag>
<data now=""/>
<data now=""/>
<default>
<data extra=""/>
<data extra=""/>
</default>
</tag>
</tags>

The <tag><data ...> stuff is all working fine.

I want to copy the whole <default>...</default> part to something (maybe a XMLDocument in my class data?) so I can process it later when needed. Is this possible?

I tried this, thinking I would at least be able to print and view the copied element. But all I get is the printf() message:
XMLElement *element ;
element = tag_element->FirstChildElement("default");
if (element) {
printf("tag has default data\n");
XMLDocument doc;
element->DeepClone(&doc);
doc.Print();
}

Any help would be appreciated.

[LuridHound]

@bigguiness , I've found an example that covers your issue - https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/blob/master/xmltest.cpp#L1446

Change :

    element->DeepClone(&doc);
    doc.Print();

to :

    doc.InsertFirstChild(element->DeepClone(&doc));
    doc.Print();

I've tested locally - it prints necessary part :

    <default>
      <data extra=""/>
      <data extra=""/>
    </default>