Equivalent to StAX for C

Question

I've used the StAX API in Java quite a bit, and find it quite a clean way of dealing with XML files. Is there any equivalent library I could use for performing similar processing in C?

Answer 1

libxml is a heavily used and documented XML library for C, which provides a SAX API. Expat is another, but in my experience is not as well documented.

Answer 2

I have used Expat pretty extensively - I like it for its simplicity and small footprint.

Answer 3

Expat does StAX

 #include "expat.h"`
VRM_parser = XML_ParserCreate("ISO-8859-1");
XML_SetElementHandler(VRM_parser, CbStartTagHandler, CbEndTagHandler);
XML_Parse(VRM_parser, text, strlen(text), 0); // start of XML
XML_Parse(VRM_parser, text, strlen(text), 0); // more XML
XML_Parse(VRM_parser, text, strlen(text), 0); // more XML
XML_Parse(VRM_parser, text, strlen(text), 0); // more XML
XML_Parse(VRM_parser, "", 0, 1); // to finish parsing

Answer 4

Huh? No, Expat does not do Stax, and code example confirms this.

Perhaps you meant it does something bit like SAX?

Answer 5

If you are not opposed to C++ then try LLama