Need help with defining a class type

[jesseshaffer]

I am currently working on a program that reads through an XML file and picks out the opening tags and closing tags. I am pushing the element tag name onto a stack only if the elements closing tag is not on the same line.

I have a class called 'Parser' which parses the XML file to pick out the elements. I also have multiple objects that are part of the class. When using the objects in my .cpp file I am getting the following error... "error:'Parser' does not name a type."

Parser.h

#ifndef PARSER_H
#define PARSER_H

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <stack>

#include "Element.h"

using namespace std;

enum ParserState {
STARTING_DOCUMENT,
ENDING_DOCUMENT,
DIRECTIVE,
STARTING_COMMENT,
IN_COMMENT,
ENDING_COMMENT,
ONE_LINE_COMMENT,
ELEMENT_OPENING_TAG,
ELEMENT_CLOSING_TAG,
ELEMENT_CONTENT,
ELEMENT_NAME_AND_CONTENT,
SELF_CLOSING_TAG,
UNKNOWN,
ERROR
};


class Parser{
public:

/**
* default constructor which reads an xml file and pushes and pops element tags
*/
Parser();

/**
* Finds and returns the parser state
* @param line
* @param elementTagName
* @param content
* @param currentState
* @param elementStack
*/
void getXMLData(
string line,
string elementTagName,
string content,
ParserState currentState,
vector<Parser*> &elementStack)const;

/**
* Pushes and pops elementTagNames onto and off the stack
* @param lineNumber
* @param elementTagName
* @param content
* @param currentState
* @param elementStack
*/
void processXMLData(
unsigned int lineNumber,
string elementTagName,
string content,
ParserState currentState,
vector<Parser*> &elementStack) const;


/**
* reads through the XML file
*/
void parseXmlFile() const;

/**
* Trims leading whitespace
* @param str
*/
void trimWhiteSpace(string& str) const;

/**
* Trims attributes to not show them in output
* @param str
*/
void trimAttributes(string& str) const;


/**
* Prints whats on stack using iterators
* @param elementStack
*/
void printStack(vector<Element*> elementStack) const;

/**
* Netbeans-supplied copy constructor
* @param orig
*/
Parser(const Parser& orig);

virtual ~Parser();

private:

string& str;

unsigned int lineNumber;

string elementTagName;

string content;

string line;



};

#endif/* _PARSER_H */



Small portion of Parser.cpp with error

Parser::getXMLData(
string line,
string elementTagName,
string content,
ParserState currentState) const {
size_t const openStartBracket = line.find("<", 0); //finds opening bracket (code from Stephanie)

if (openStartBracket != string::npos) {
if (line[openStartBracket + 1] == '!') {
size_t const closingCommentBracket = line.find("-->", 0);
if (closingCommentBracket != string::npos) {
size_t start = line.find("<!--", 0) + 4; //searches to see if opening comment tag located (code from Stephanie))
size_t end = line.find("-->", start); //searches to see if closing comment tag located (code from Stephanie)
elementTagName = "";
content = line.substr(start, end - start);
return ONE_LINE_COMMENT;
} else {
size_t start = line.find("<!--", 0) + 4;
size_t end = line.length();
elementTagName = "";
content = line.substr(start, end - start);
return STARTING_COMMENT;
}

[MikeyBoy]

Firstly, please use code tags when posting code, to make it readable.

In your function definition, you've omitted the return type (which, in this case, is void).