RE: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Richard S. <Ric...@ei...>]

> The most fancy on the PC is msxml, it doesn't everything,=20
> .NET basically uses it.

Currently no parsers implement the entire set of standards as=20
they are still being written. However, I would recommend Apache's
XercesC over msxml. Technical reasons include that Xerces properly
implements the open standard in an opensource manner. Xerces has
a much faster uptake time of standards additions. MS have a habit of
adding unecessary proprietry extensions to their implementations of
standards which locks you in to their implementation.

> The smallest I know is CMarkup (search for it on Codeproject). it's
> literally a single class of C++ code, it's smaller than a few k :)

The smallest I know is mine which is the release time parser (debug
parser is fully validating XercesC) and it's a single class and
fills maybe 2 code pages (not including documentation, 1280*1024
resolution, full size MSVC editor window). XML really is that easy
to write straight parsers for.

Rich