Software:TinyXML

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TinyXML
Developer(s)Lee Thomason
Stable release
9.0.0 / June 7, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-06-07)
TypeAPI
Licensezlib License
Websitegithub.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/

TinyXML is a small, simple, operating system-independent[1] XML parser for the C++ language.[2] It is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of the zlib License.[3]

TinyXML-2 replaces TinyXML-1 completely and only this version should be used.

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

  1. "TinyXml Main Page". https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2. "It is written in OS independent C++." 
  2. Drew Sikora, John Hattan. Beginning Game Programming: A GameDev.net Collection (Course Technology Cengage Learning). ISBN 978-1-59863-805-9. 
  3. "TinyXml Documentation". https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/blob/master/LICENSE.txt. "TinyXML is released under the ZLib license" 

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