Re: xml parsing

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 21:04 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
> I am attempting to find a relatively simple means for parsing an xml
> file for initializing an application.  So far I have found two possible
> toolsets that might help me do it: libxml and the Simple XML Subset Parser
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Simple-XML-Subset-Parser.html
> 
> I found some libxml examples but they only print the contents of a file
> but don't provide any obvious means of parsing for some particular item.
> After some google searching I still couldn't find any examples using
> the Simple XML Subset Parser.  I only found this one item
> http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.gtk+.general/2002-09/msg00081.html
> with a bad link to an example.
> 
> All I really need is something simple such as was provided by Windows
> ini files.  I did it once using xerces and xalan but I can only
> compile that with Visual Studio on Windows.  I made a simple parsing
> class that I construct with the xml file name and then call something
> like
> myparser->get_value("/xml_root_node/some_value", "default_val");
> I would really like to do something similar that works with MinGW.
> Since Xalan doesn't work with MinGW, I am trying to find a way to do
> it with something else such as libxml or the Simple XML Subset Parser.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion or a good example?

libxml++ has quite a simple API.

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