[Libxmlplusplus-general] newbie question: libxml++ vs. xerces-C++

[Ed H. <ed...@eh...>]

Hi folks,

I've started converting to XML for some of my data sets (mostly X-ray
spectra and geometry info for GPL'd scientific computing applications)
and I was wondering if someone could provide some comments on the
ups/downs the Xerces-C++ (http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html)
parser versus the libxml++ parser.  I've written some demo code using
both and, so far, I prefer the cleaner, simpler libxml++ SAX interface.=20
I find the Xerces code to be a lot more confusing...

Specific questions:

  1) Does (or can) libxml++ do validation while parsing?  I'm writing=20
     DTDs for my data sets and would prefer a validating parser.

  2) Xerces-C++ seems to use Unicode while libxml doesn't.  Should I=20
     care?  Or am I missing something?

Any help is appreciated!

thanks,
Ed


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