VC++ project: MSXML vs any other XML libraries

Question

We are aware of MSXML, based on COM technologies. We want to use it for a VC++ project starting soon. Are there any other XML libraries do good compared to MSXML?

Answer 1

Will you be using the .Net Framework if so you may want to look at using linq to xml.

Answer 2

TinyXML - A C++ open source library

Answer 3

We ditched MSXML in favor of Xerces for our project, although Xerces is also a big, complicated beast. The TinyXML suggestion is probably a good one if it does everything you need it to. If you only need basic SAX model support (and not a DOM), then you might also consider expat which is one of the first widely used XML parsers.

Answer 4

LIBXML "Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License."

I have used it for many years on Win32 projects without problem. It supports both SAX and DOM style reading.

Answer 5

You must take a look at Microsoft XmlLite which is a pull parser for pure C++. The primary goals of XmlLite are ease of use, performance, and standards compliance.

Answer 6

Take a look at RapidXML. Also, Boost.PropertyTree is an abstraction over property trees (XML, JSON, INI, INFO at the time of writing) and relies on RapidXML for its XML parser.