Getting junk character in C structure after parsing - c

Question

I am using a simple xml file.
<COMPANY>
<EMPLOYEES>
<EMPLOYEE>
<NAME>BOB</NAME>
<EMPID>51211</EMPID>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<DOB>10-1-1982</DOB>
<DOJ>12-7-2001</DOJ>
</EMPLOYEE>
</EMPLOYEES>
</COMPANY>
The xml booster meta definition file for the same is as below
<SYSTEM NAME="testmeta" >
<CCONFIG MAXLEN="100"
ARRAYSIZE="5"
FLATMODE="TRUE"/>
<ELEMENT NAME="COMPANY" TAG="COMPANY" MAIN="TRUE" >
<FIELDS>
<FIELD NAME="EMPLOYEES" REFTYPE="EMPLOYEE" MODE="DEFAULT" />
</FIELDS>
<FORMULA>
<ENCLOSED NAME="EMPLOYEES" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is EMPLOYEES</META>
<REPEAT TARGET="EMPLOYEES" ATLEASTONE="TRUE" >
<ELEMENTREF NAME="EMPLOYEE" />
</REPEAT>
</ENCLOSED>
</FORMULA>
</ELEMENT>
<ELEMENT NAME="EMPLOYEE" TAG="EMPLOYEE" >
<FIELDS>
<FIELD NAME="NAME" TYPE="STRING" />
<FIELD NAME="EMPID" TYPE="INTEGER" />
<FIELD NAME="SEX" TYPE="STRING" />
<FIELD NAME="DOB" TYPE="STRING" />
<FIELD NAME="DOJ" TYPE="STRING" />
</FIELDS>
<FORMULA>
<CONCAT>
<ENCLOSED NAME="NAME" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is NAME</META>
<PCDATA TARGET="NAME" />
</ENCLOSED>
<ENCLOSED NAME="EMPID" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is EMPID</META>
<PCDATA TARGET="EMPID" />
</ENCLOSED>
<ENCLOSED NAME="SEX" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is SEX</META>
<PCDATA TARGET="SEX" />
</ENCLOSED>
<ENCLOSED NAME="DOB" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is DOB</META>
<PCDATA TARGET="DOB" />
</ENCLOSED>
<ENCLOSED NAME="DOJ" >
<META NAME="COMMENT" >Target field is DOJ</META>
<PCDATA TARGET="DOJ" />
</ENCLOSED>
</CONCAT>
</FORMULA>
</ELEMENT>
</SYSTEM>
Generated a .c and .h file for the same using xmlbooster lite using following command
xmlblit.exe -C testmeta.xmlb
Now in my application in main function i m calling accept_COMPANY function and passing S_XMLB_CONTEXT context object. Function succeeds but when i print each employee value using
printf("%s, %d, %s, %s, %s", En->aNAME,
En->aEMPID,
En->aSEX,
En->aDOB,
En->aDOJ);
printf("\n");
i am getting junk characters printed, even for the integer aEMPID value.
I am using Visual studio 2010 to compile and run the C program.
Tried both Unicode and MultiByte project but no luck in getting the correct values.
I am getting output as
UOB, 78, M, j0-1-1982, 1t-7-2001
After debugging the generated .c file found that, the generator is setting unwanted values for PCDATA type field. For e.g. for NAME field after retrieving the name from XML, the code has the following statement
/* Regexp */
if (strlen(obj->aNAME) > 0)
(obj->aNAME)[0] = 'U';
Anyone faced similar situation?

Answer 1

Wrote to xmlbooster support got the following reply.
XMLBooster Lite only support Java ; C is only provided for evaluation purposes, as values are scrambled as you’ve noticed in your sample programs and in the generated code. You need to purchase XMLBooster Pro to generate production-level parsers in C.
Got the answer, hope this helps others too who are experimenting.