Parses and displays fine for me. That's without my patch.
So, what is the code to read the multiple titles ? This is my oversight for not looking at this in more detail
It's rather complicated. This is not what PropTree was built for, as far as I can see - support for multiple nodes with the same name is rather weak.
I would not say it was not built for it - it is a legitimate use. It may rather indicate that ptree interface is lacking something with regards to multiple nodes with the same name. But maybe it's not that bad, see below.
Path resolution always takes the first that comes up. It's not an XPath engine - not by far. The steps to take in this specific case would be: 1) Get the child "rss.channel". 2) Call sort() on the channel. (Marcin, is sort() stable, i.e. would it
Sort is not stable. But I thing there is a better algorithm: iterate over all nodes and compare keys. It is O(n) instead O(n log n), plus it preserves the sequence of nodes. This will list all the titles: BOOST_FOREACH(boost::property_tree::ptree::value_type &v, pt.get_child( argv[2] )) if (v.first == "item") std::cout << "title: " << v.second.get("title", "no title") << '\n'; Best regards, Marcin