[JDEV] XML Requirements for Parsing Jabber Messages

[Robert Norris]

> Actually, I would NOT recommend Xerces-C for jabber since it's memory model
> isn't exactly condusive (sp?) to Jabber style streams (a stream is a
> document, and it doesn't release ref-counted objects until you free the
> document). For either C or C++, I would definitely use expat. It's blazingly
> fast and can be rigged to provide rudimentary namespace support. You can use
> expat to build up C++ DOM style objects if you want.

Recent versions of expat (1.95+) have real namespace support (it tracks
the prefixes internally so you don't have to). I'd certainly recommend
expat.

Rob.

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Robert Norris                                       GPG: 1024D/FC18E6C2
Email+Jabber: rob at cataclysm.cx                Web: http://cataclysm.cx/
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