TinyXML explained
TinyXML |
Developer: | Lee Thomason |
Latest Release Version: | 9.0.0 |
Genre: | API |
License: | zlib License |
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
- Web site: TinyXml Main Page . It is written in OS independent C++..
- Book: Drew Sikora, John Hattan . Beginning Game Programming: A GameDev.net Collection (Course Technology Cengage Learning) . 978-1-59863-805-9.
- Web site: TinyXml Documentation . TinyXML is released under the ZLib license.
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