find html tag and also its character position

Question

I was looking for a C/C++ library with a function that would allow you to search for a tag by name and attributes, and then return other attributes of the found tag, and most importantly, indicate which visible character position the tag occurred at.

Does jquery/javascript already allow this, and if so, do I just need something to process jquery/jscript from within C/C++, or is there in fact some native C/C++ library that's faster.

Answer 1

Tagsoup > XML Parser > XPath > Attribute retrieval.

That's how I'd do it. That makes the most sense and gives you the most powerful parsing.