List had elements. Then, the list became empty.

Hi.

I have a weird problem in C++. I do the following.

Configuration gConfiguration; // global variable

BOOL LoadConfig()
{
HotTags ConfigHotTags = gConfiguration.GetHotTags();

for (long jj = 0; jj < pNodeList->length; jj++)
{
    pNodeList->get_item(jj, &pNode);
    pNamedNodeMap = pNode->Getattributes();

    pNode1 = pNamedNodeMap->getNamedItem(L"ActionType");
    _bstr_t ActionType = pNode1->Gettext();

    pNode1 = pNamedNodeMap->getNamedItem(L"ActionScope");
    _bstr_t ActionScope = pNode1->Gettext();

    _bstr_t Tag = pNode->text;

    HotTag* pHotTag = new HotTag((LPTSTR) ActionType, (LPTSTR) ActionScope,
(LPTSTR) Tag);
    ConfigHotTags.push_back(pHotTag);
}

fDebug << "Hot Tag Test" << endl;
list<HotTag*>::iterator iter;
for (iter = ConfigHotTags.begin(); iter != ConfigHotTags.end(); iter++)
{
    fDebug << (*iter)->GetActionType() << ", " << (*iter)->GetActionScope() <<
", " << (*iter)->GetTag() << endl;
}
}

The Hot Tag Test result is fine, printing the values. But, when I try to
access the elements from another function, ConfigHotTags is empty.
It prints ???0??? from the ???if??? block below when I call GetHotTagStart().

int GetHotTagStart(int iStart, string& sDataTemp, string& sTag)
{
    ofstream fDebug("c:\\inetpub\\scripts\\debug.txt", ios::out | ios::app);
    int iResult = string::npos;
    int iIndex = 0;
    bool bFound = false;
    string sTempTag;
    HotTags ConfigHotTags = gConfiguration.GetHotTags();
fDebug << "GetHotTagStart()" << endl;
    list<HotTag*>::iterator iterator1;

    if (ConfigHotTags.size() == 0)
        fDebug << "0" << endl;
    else if (ConfigHotTags.size() == 3)
        fDebug << "3" << endl;
    else
        fDebug << "dont know" << endl;

    // so on
}

Here is my Configuration class definition from .h file.
typedef std::list<HotTag*> HotTags;

class Configuration
{
    private:
        HotTags _HotTags;

    public:
        Configuration();

        HotTags& GetHotTags();
};

From CPP file,

HotTags& Configuration::GetHotTags()
{
    return (_HotTags);
}

Why is my ConfigHotTags empty in GetHotTagStart(), when the list had
elements in LoadConfig()?

Appreciate it.
J

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