I need to manage (parse and build) XML in my c++ application but I have no idea about libraries that can help me doing that. I searched in Boost but found none, std namespace sure does not provide such functionalities. Is there a free c++ library to manage xml?
Thank you
TinyXML
Xerces-C++
RapidXml
others
Arabica is a very nice and standard-friendly wrapper for different XML parsers.
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Can I serialize C++ class object to XML file using MFC Serialization. I found libraries like Boost, XML Foundation to perform this but I don't want to use any third party lib.
Is it possible in MFC C++ serialization or using any other core/native lib. Please help on this.
MFC does not have any native Xml serialization. You're either going to have to roll your own, or use a 3rd-party library. Why you have set yourself this false limitation is entirely unknown.
If it is size, or a dependency issue you are concerned about, I recommend TinyXml which you can include directly in to your C++ project and therefore have no dependencies and excellent Xml reading and writing. Note that this won't serialize an object by default, you'll have to use the class to write the Xml out yourself.
Alternatively you can look at this link in CodeProject on Xml serialization. Once again, this will require effort on your behalf.
I have an xml file to be parsed for the information contained to be further used. Can anyone help me with the xerces C++ code for parsing it? I have the xml creation code using xerces library as well in C++.
Maybe this doesn't help you much if you're already committed to xerces, but I'd recommend using pugixml instead. It's very easy to integrate, is very performant and has excellent documentation. I built a rather large project using it and had nothing but good experiences with it. It's of the nicest libraries I've ever used. (I'm not affiliated with them; just very happy).
Here is the documentation on parsing files: http://pugixml.googlecode.com/svn/tags/latest/docs/manual/access.html
I have requirement where we have to read a small XML file on Linux. Our application is in C++ and I like to use any light weight XML library. Please suggest me the library.
Thanks
You can Try pugixml Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++
As a 2nd option look at TinyXML
Have a look also at TinyXml (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml). It is extremely lightweight and for this reason it is used also in mobile and game programming. The API is minimal though so you have to evaluate if it fully satisfy your needs.
This xml parser is good
There is xerces-c for that. It's complete, but I don't know if you will find it small enough. Your question is relative to what?
We are aware of MSXML, based on COM technologies. We want to use it for a VC++ project starting soon. Are there any other XML libraries do good compared to MSXML?
TinyXML - A C++ open source library
Will you be using the .Net Framework if so you may want to look at using linq to xml.
Take a look at RapidXML. Also, Boost.PropertyTree is an abstraction over property trees (XML, JSON, INI, INFO at the time of writing) and relies on RapidXML for its XML parser.
We ditched MSXML in favor of Xerces for our project, although Xerces is also a big, complicated beast. The TinyXML suggestion is probably a good one if it does everything you need it to. If you only need basic SAX model support (and not a DOM), then you might also consider expat which is one of the first widely used XML parsers.
LIBXML
"Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License."
I have used it for many years on Win32 projects without problem. It supports both SAX and DOM style reading.
You must take a look at Microsoft XmlLite which is a pull parser for pure C++. The primary goals of XmlLite are ease of use, performance, and standards compliance.
What XML libraries are out there, which are minimal, easy to use, come with little dependencies (ideally none), can be linked statically and come with a liberal license? So far, I've been a pretty happy user of TinyXML, but I'm curious what alternatives I have missed so far.
expat is a very fast C XML parser (although a C++ wrapper exists) that's widely used in many open-source projects. If I remember correctly, it has very few dependencies, and it's licensed under the very liberal MIT License.
I recommend rapidxml. It's an order of magnitude smaller than tinyxml, and doesn't choke on doctypes like tinyxml does.
If you need entity support or anything advanced, forget about static linking and use expat or libxml2.
FWIW there is also a version of TinyXML with a more C++-like interface, called ticpp.
There's one called libxml2.
There's also a Windows-only solution, a COM library that's part of the O/S, called msxml.
In "what’s the easiest way to generate xml in c++?" I wrote a comment that lists a few C++ XML libraries
TinyXML++ (ticpp) was, IMHO, the most appropriate for a small, easy to use XML library in C++.