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TinyXML

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Developer(s)
  
Lee Thomason

Type
  
API

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

License
  
zlib/libpng

Stable release
  
2.6.2 / May 15, 2011 (2011-05-15)

Website
  
http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/index.html

TinyXML is a small, simple, operating system-independent XML parser for the C++ language. It is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of the license of zlib/libpng.

Contents

Features

The principal impetus for TinyXML is its size, as the name suggests. It parses the XML into a DOM-like tree. It can both read and write XML files.

Limitations

  • TinyXML does not process DTDs, either internal or external. So XML files that rely upon DTD-defined entities will not parse correctly in TinyXML.
  • Though it does handle processing instructions, it has no facilities for handling XSLT stylesheet declarations. That is, it does not apply an XSLT declared in a stylesheet processing instruction to the XML file when parsing it.
  • Further, TinyXML has no facility for handling XML namespaces. Qualified element or attribute names retain their prefixes, as TinyXML makes no effort to match the prefixes with namespaces.
  • In terms of encodings, it only handles files using UTF-8 or an unspecified form of ASCII similar to Latin-1.

    • References

    TinyXML Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA