TinyXML is a small, simple, operating system-independent XML parser for the C++ language. It is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of the zlib License.
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.
External links
- Free and open-source software portal
- TinyXML1 Homepage
- TinyXML2 Documentation
- TinyXML2 Homepage
- TinyXML++ which adds C++ concepts to TinyXML.
- TinyXPath which adds XPath syntax decoding to TinyXML in C++.
References
"TinyXml Main Page". It is written in OS independent C++. https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 ↩
Drew Sikora, John Hattan. Beginning Game Programming: A GameDev.net Collection (Course Technology Cengage Learning). ISBN 978-1-59863-805-9. 978-1-59863-805-9 ↩
"TinyXml Documentation". TinyXML is released under the ZLib license https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/blob/master/LICENSE.txt ↩