Simple XML C Parser

Question

This is what I need to do: I need to read an XML document and extract elements and their values ​​from it, for example, in the following code:

<user name="Mark"> <param name="Age" value="21"/> <param name="Country" value="NL"/> </user> 

I need to extract: name = Mark, Age = 21 and Country = NL.

Until today, I did this analysis manually, which was painful.

Now I don’t care if the file is “valid XML” or whatever, I don’t care about DTD or other standard XML requirements. I just need to read and analyze the values.

Does anyone know (except lib eXpat) lib for this or code for this? Thanks!

Jess

EDIT:

Yes, I forgot to mention the platform: Windows and Linux. In plain C, not C ++

Answer 1

Mini-XML looks promising

http://www.minixml.org/

Answer 2

Libxml2

Answer 3

An expat parser is the best I have found - I use it in my C ++ code, preferring various C ++ parsers - but it is written in C. It is very easy to use and integrates into your application. Therefore, I do not understand why in your question you say:

(except lib eXpat)

Do you have anything against it?

Answer 4

What about Mini-XML? It is lightweight, works with gcc, is compatible with ANSI-C ...

http://www.minixml.org/index.php

According to the documentation, finding specific nodes will be as simple as:

 /* Find the first "a" element */ node = mxmlFindElement(tree, tree, "a", NULL, NULL, MXML_DESCEND); 

Once you get the node, you can manage it according to your requirements.

Answer 5

If C ++ is fine, you can try TinyXML . I have been using it for several years and it works well.