XML Parser for C++

[monoceres]

First off, I have zero experience with xml and thats pretty much why I'm creating this topic.

I'm working on a project where I'm going to parse these kind of xml's.

Can anyone recommend a parser to use?

My requirements for the parser is as follows:

• Able to parse the above xml (obviously)
• Load the XML from memory
• Lightweight, should only use STL and native code.
• Reasonable easy to use
• As free as possible, I don't feel like being caged by a strict license.

As long as compiles in VC++2008 I should be fine.

I took a look at TinyXML and it looked good, but I'm not sure it handles xml's in memory?

Thanks.

Edited December 8, 2009 by monoceres

[JRowe]

Expat is probably good, MIT license.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/

[monoceres]

The C implemention in that library with function pointers and stuff will not fit in very well with my strict object oriented approach in this project. So I rather use a libary that's already OO.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

As I said before, TinyXml seems awesome, but I have no idea if it's a crap library or whatever. I now think it can load the xml from memory (I found TiXmlDocument::Parse), but I'm not sure.

[Valik]

Any XML parser worth using will have a public method for parsing a string. Internally a load-from-file function would need to call a parse-from-string function anyway so there's no reason the library won't expose it as part of it's API. Besides, if its a DOM or SAX based parser it's required to have such a method or it doesn't conform to those parsing methods.

Edited December 9, 2009 by Valik

[monoceres]

In brief, TinyXML parses an XML document, and builds from that a Document Object Model (DOM) that can be read, modified, and saved.

Guess I should be fine then. TinyXml meets all criterias I set up above.

Any other suggestions for an XML parser is still welcome though.