See here for details on how to make a case insensitive string type: http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/029.htm You can then specialise the property tree with this new type: typedef basic_ptree< ci_string, std::string > ptree; You can also use boost::iequals for comparing strings ignoring case, which may or may not be a better solution depending on your requirements.Regards Dan 2012/2/7 Brad Tilley

I'm trying to make all of the strings (xml tags and attributes) contained within a property tree be case insensitive, to make comparison easy and consistent.

Here's an example:

boost::property_tree::iptree pt; read_xml( file, pt, boost::property_tree::xml_parser::trim_whitespace );

// case insensitive std::string name = v.second.getstd::string("<xmlattr>.nAmE");

// case insensitive BOOST_FOREACH( boost::property_tree::iptree::value_type const& v, pt.get_child("neTwOrK") ) { // fails comparison because "thing" is case sensitive. if ( v.first == "tHiNg" ) { .... } }

Is it possible to make v.first case insensitive as well?

Thanks,

Brad

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