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XML parser

Started by Omikron Apr 28, 2003 at 5:08 PM 14 replies 2.5k views

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Omikron

Apr 28, 2003 at 5:08 PM

What''s a good C/C++ XML parser?

Ninebit

Apr 28, 2003 at 5:12 PM

I use something called tiny xml. some simple classes that parses xml for you... it cannot handle all the fancy extra stuff that xml is about, but it is a minimal lib for parsing the tree structure with the data. enough for games i''d say.

Ishan

Apr 29, 2003 at 1:06 AM

Oh come on, be a real man / woman and write your own.

I hammered one out in an afternoon, and it only took 150 lines.

davidkosenina

Apr 29, 2003 at 2:37 AM

Helo

I am yust starting to use TinyXML and I must say that is
easy to use, fast, averything you want from a xml parser!

Bye!

ChaosEngine

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ChaosEngine

Apr 29, 2003 at 2:47 AM

can someone post a link? I googled for it but only found java versions and the home page was down

Kuladus

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Kuladus

Apr 29, 2003 at 4:19 AM

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Kylotan

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Kylotan

Apr 29, 2003 at 5:22 AM

quote:
Original post by Ishan
Oh come on, be a real man / woman and write your own. I hammered one out in an afternoon, and it only took 150 lines.

DOM or SAX? What access functionality does it allow? What''s performance like?

Want to post code?

steg

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steg

Apr 29, 2003 at 11:04 AM

MSXML seems good and is well tested, supports both SAX and DOM.

As for writing your own, well, I disagree, I don''t think Microsoft wrote MSXML in an afternoon!

drslush

Apr 29, 2003 at 11:08 AM

Sure, reinventing the wheel might not be too hard, but using one already invented will probably be rounder and roll faster ;-D

scalp

Apr 29, 2003 at 11:30 AM

expat (http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html) is good and fast, specially if you want to parse big files. LibXML is very good too.
Both are in C, so you might want to use one of the C++ wrapper available.

Nico

cgoat

Apr 29, 2003 at 12:38 PM

I use Xerces C++.

[edited by - cgoat on April 29, 2003 1:39:04 PM]

Ishan

Apr 29, 2003 at 1:20 PM

quote:
Original post by Kylotan
DOM or SAX? What access functionality does it allow? What's performance like?

Want to post code?

Now, I've kept this thing really simple, because it's just for crunching data for my game engine. Basically it consumes xml like:

?xml version="1.0" ?
folder name="console"
string name="promptbeg" ( /string
string name="promptend" )# /string
float name="max_lines" 200 /float
float name="max_remember" 20 /float
vec4 name="color" {0,0.2,0,1} /vec4
folder name="font"
string name="face" Arial /string
/folder
/folder

which can be accessed as follows:


xml xmlfile("file.xml");
string promptbeg = xmlfile.get("/console/promptbeg");
float max_lines = xmlfile.get("/console/max_lines");

Really simple, I'd admit, but it's fast as hell and it makes a very easy interface for storing preferences.

PS Anyone know how to post XML without having the damn bulletin board software strip your tags off?

[edited by - Ishan on April 29, 2003 2:21:08 PM]

[edited by - Ishan on April 29, 2003 2:23:13 PM]

[edited by - Ishan on April 29, 2003 2:48:28 PM]