[Expat-discuss] Using Expat to rewrite an XML file, can it be done?

[Mauro Daniel Ardolino]

Thank you very much! my confussion started when I thought that expat was a
SAX parser...as you say is "SAX like".  Now I red "what expat not is".
I'll try arabica.

Thanks again!

Mauro

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Karl Waclawek wrote:

> 
> > About this answer I have a question:
> > 
> > I'm starting to write a program in C++ and I want to parse a XML 
> > document to get some parameters.  Is it recommended to use something
> > else than expat?  I mean, reading this answer I think I have to
> > find something to mount on expat, other high-level layer.
> > Is it that what you wanted to say?  Any suggestions?
> 
> Well, if you want to edit an XML file then a DOM parser looks
> more like what you need. There are several available, like
> Xerces and libXML.
> 
> If you just want to read data from the XML document and use them some
> other way, than Expat should do just fine for the reading part.
> 
> If you want to adhere to a standardized API, like SAX, then
> you need a wrapper that exposes Expat functionality 
> (which is already SAX like) in a more strictly SAX way.
> 
> There is one link on the Expat home page for a SAX wrapper
> written in C++. I don't know how widely used this specific
> version of the SAX API is, in the C++ world, but here it is:
> 
> http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/arabica
> 
> There is another C++ wrapper too, but the link seems dead at the moment:
> 
> http://www.codeproject.com/soap/expatimpl.asp
> 
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Karl
> 

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