RE: [xml-dev] Need good C++ XML Library

["Fred Crable" <fcrable@voyence.com>]

Sorry for my quick XML in typing.  It was more of an example and not
really for parsing sake :)  It was and only meant to show the simplicity
of what I seek.  Where can find such a TagSoup?

-----Original Message-----
From: Amelia A Lewis [mailto:amyzing@talsever.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:23 PM
To: Fred Crable
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Need good C++ XML Library

Hmm.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:57:43 -0600
"Fred Crable" <fcrable@voyence.com> wrote:
>Just depends on what it doesn't "Conform" to within the standard.  I'm

Well, your example, for one.

>not doing any validation or major nesting.  I just need to add and
>extract nodes from simple documents not much more than a few levels
deep
>with some tag values.  Example might be:
>
><top x=1>

Well-formedness error.  Conformant XML processors *must* halt and catch
fire.

XML requires that attribute values be quoted.

>  <nest y=2 z=3>val</nest>
>  <nest y=4 z=6>other val</nest>
>  <nest><deepnest>deep val</deepnest></nest>
></top>
>
>I'm really using it more for input data parsing and perhaps some simple
>document construction. Like adding another <nest/> to this above.

That might work (at least, assuming that you put the attribute values in
quotes).  I'd be surprised if even the mostly wildly non-conforming XML
parser failed to catch that.

For what you seem to want, though, tag soup might be a more appropriate
API (well, it might be tied to HTML, but something of that nature).
Dunno that anyone's bothered to write such a thing; it's harder to write
something that can handle ill-formed documents than to write a
more-or-less conformant processor.

Amy!
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