Good C++ XML library

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Can anyone recommend me a good XML library? Should be relatively easy to
use, and especially a good tutorial/handbook would be nice ...

I didn't find the Xerces documentation that helpful ...

 

[Eduardo Grajeda]

Jens Müller escribió:

Can anyone recommend me a good XML library? Should be relatively easy to
use, and especially a good tutorial/handbook would be nice ...

I didn't find the Xerces documentation that helpful ...

If you decide to try a C library you could try
libxml2(http://www.xmlsoft.org/), wich haves lots of examples and its
pretty easy to use. I use it with my C++ projects.

- Eduardo Grajeda

 

[Roland Pibinger]

Can anyone recommend me a good XML library? Should be relatively easy to
use, and especially a good tutorial/handbook would be nice ...
I didn't find the Xerces documentation that helpful ...

TinyXml? http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/

Best wishes,
Roland Pibinger

 

[Rolf Magnus]

Jens Müller escribió:

If you decide to try a C library you could try
libxml2(http://www.xmlsoft.org/), wich haves lots of examples and its
pretty easy to use. I use it with my C++ projects.

Or if you prefer C++, simply use its C++ binding, libxml++.

 

[Joe Van Dyk]

Eduardo Grajeda wrote:




Or if you prefer C++, simply use its C++ binding, libxml++.

One problem I found with libxml2++ (and libxml2) is the number of
dependencies it needs. I gave up trying to get it installed on a Redhat
8 machine and used TinyXML instead.

Joe

 

[Mehturt]

Can anyone recommend me a good XML library? Should be relatively easy to
use, and especially a good tutorial/handbook would be nice ...

I didn't find the Xerces documentation that helpful ...

I am an expat fan http://expat.sf.net

 

[dj]

Can anyone recommend me a good XML library? Should be relatively easy to
use, and especially a good tutorial/handbook would be nice ...

I didn't find the Xerces documentation that helpful ...

I used TinyXml in my last project as well.

 

[Yannick Tremblay]

Or if you prefer C++, simply use its C++ binding, libxml++.

I would certainly recommend using libxml++ above libxml2 directly.

Although libxml2 has very extensive capability, the memory management
in it is a a total nightmare. If you use it directly, forget about
good RAII practices. Various functions can return a pointer to memory
owned by another object that you shouldn't touch or memory that has
been allocated by this function and that you are responsible to free.
Freeing this memory is done via a function call but which function
call depend on what function allocated the object (xmlFree,
xmlFreeDoc, xsltFreeStylesheet, xmlXPathFreeObject, etc. etc). And
sometimes, the content of the allocated object contains pointers to
memory owned by another object. And don't forget to initialise your
library and clean up afterward with xmlCleanupParser(). Etc. etc.

To its credit, it works. So it might be worth using and is most
probably better than implementing your own xml parser from scratch. I
would just have liked it to use better (and more consistent) ownership
patterns.


Yan