Which XML parser do you recommend?

I looked at Xerces and did take note that it validates... is that really useful? Is that basically the equivilant of debugging for XML? TinyXML does not validate but it is, well, tiny. I''m not too worried about the .dll issue either, however the more dlls users have to download the worse off my turn-over rate will be I think.

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Upon compiling TinyXML (very few source files -- it really IS tiny!), I noticed that it is made into a static lib which I think I like.

tinyxml src download: 137kb
xerces-c++ src download: 12mb

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[edited by - neurokaotix on January 7, 2004 3:20:09 AM]

Thankfully for its purpose, the XML files used in my project should never reach a size like that. I would say that they would never go over 15-20kb each.

Also, Xerces has a crazy amount of stuff in their source d/l. I suppose I was looking for a reason to not use Xerces and the fact that it wouldn't build correctly on my first (and only) attempt really made me dislike it. Though I suppose I should really read the manual on it before I just say it doesn't work at all for me.

Before I say I'm not going to use it I think I should give it a good look-though and whatnot. It will probably serve me better in the future to go with a library that has validation.

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[edited by - neurokaotix on January 7, 2004 6:20:01 AM]

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Original post by neurokaotix
Upon compiling TinyXML (very few source files -- it really IS tiny!), I noticed that it is made into a static lib which I think I like.

tinyxml src download: 137kb
xerces-c++ src download: 12mb

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You probably compiled the demo program. TinyXML is made so that you can just include the files into your project. I also use it and it''s very simple and indeed tiny! Just 4 source files and 2 headers. But I guess you can also make it as a static lib. It also has a very nice license. You can use it for commercial software.

Or you could try a different parser type (was it pull vs push?) - with libxml2 you can use the xml reader interface which is fast and light on memory, it only stores what you are reading at the moment, not the whole document.

I use tinyXML in my project. It works great, but don't forget to call at app startup : setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
if you intend to store extended ascii characters (european, etc). If you use XML to store file path, know that paths may have some of these characters in european/asian langages ...

see this thread :
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=959583&forum_id=172103
all the best,
-lonestarrr


[edited by - lonestarrr on January 7, 2004 6:38:56 AM]

Is TinyXML able to store wide character strings yet?

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Original post by antareus
Is TinyXML able to store wide character strings yet?

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AFAIK it is not, but you can easily modify the source
code to enable it.

Can someone please post a link for both the XML parsers. Cheers

www.google.com and www.google.com

I''m surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft''s very nice MSXML. Its very solid and you know its well backed

If you just need to parse XML its definetly one of the best
Cheers
Chris

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Original post by chollida1
I''m surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft''s very nice MSXML. Its very solid and you know its well backed

If you just need to parse XML its definetly one of the best
Cheers
Chris

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I''m interested in cross-platform solutions

MindEngine Development
http://medev.sourceforge.net

Too bad, sorry about that, its really quite good. my recomendation would then be TinyXML as its very small and functionally complete.

Xeries brings in more baggage as its not strictly for XML, we use it as our SVG parser

Cheers
Chris