I spent the last few hours looking for a simple XML parser for C++. I did find two candidates: TinyXML and xmlParser. The latter looks the easiest, but I had to send an e-mail to the developer requesting for the tool. It’s been a few hours now and I haven’t heard back from him yet, but I did send it quite late on a Friday night.
I know that there are many other XML parsers out there. Xerces and Expat are quite popular, but they are just too big for what I am trying to do. If you know your history, Xerces along with his huge Persian army fought against a tiny group of Spartans. I thought that it would be clever to come up with a tiny XML parser called Sparta. Well, Eamonn O’Brien-Strain developed an open-source project called Sparta – Lean XML Parser, DOM,, & XPath. Unfortunately, it’s a Java application–still nice work with the parsing tool and the historical references. I wish I could have thought of these things first.
Microsoft’s XmlLite showed promise too, but when I looked at the code samples, I quickly realized that I needed to learn some things about C++ COM programming before I could even think about XML. I then checked out Microsoft’s MSXML. I found some really great articles, but most them were ten years or older. It probably works just fine today, but I don’t trust old code on newer Windows operating systems. I have Win7 64-bit. This library was written about the same time as Microsoft ME – which, by the way, is still the greatest operating system ever known to mankind.
Once I try TinyXML and xmlParser, I will write something up for you. Now it’s too late. Go to hell XML.
References:
http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/xmlParser.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml/
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sparta-xml/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163436.aspx
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