Parsing XML in C

Question

How to parse XML response coming from the server in C. Do we have any standard libraries for it? Can some one provide me any idea

Answer 1

• libxml
• expat

Benchmarks also exist to help you compare the two. libxml seems to be faster and have more functionality.

Answer 2

See Gnome (libxml) and expat.

Answer 3

Another SAX parser would be Xerces : http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/

Answer 4

In additional to SAX based parsing, there is also vtd-xml