Efficient XML parsing

[Thomas Lecomte]

Hello,

I'm working on a project and I need to parse an XML file containing the
description of a lot of images.
Here's an example of the XML data:

<db_name>
<picture>
<pic_id>2033</pid_id>
<pic_name>foo</pic_name>
...
</picture>
</db_name>

What I'd like to do is to store each images as a C++ object, for example:

class Image
{
int pic_id;
std::string pic_name;


...
};

Is there any efficient library to do this? Or must I do it all myself
using libxml?

By the way I hope i'm posting in the right newsgroup...

Thanks,

Thomas

 

[al pacino]

Hello,

I'm working on a project and I need to parse an XML file containing the
description of a lot of images.
Here's an example of the XML data:

<db_name>
<picture>
<pic_id>2033</pid_id>
<pic_name>foo</pic_name>
...
</picture>
</db_name>

What I'd like to do is to store each images as a C++ object, for example:

class Image
{
int pic_id;
std::string pic_name;


...
};

Is there any efficient library to do this? Or must I do it all myself
using libxml?

By the way I hope i'm posting in the right newsgroup...

Thanks,

Thomas

you may use XERCES by apache(xml parser for c++)

 

[Phlip]

Is there any efficient library to do this? Or must I do it all myself
using libxml?

Just get tinyxml, and use it until you need a high-end parser. You probably
won't.

XML was designed to be light, so use it lightly.

 

[Thomas Lecomte]

Just get tinyxml, and use it until you need a high-end parser. You probably
won't.

XML was designed to be light, so use it lightly.

Thanks for the answers.
Forgive me about the clone message, I had some problems with my client.
Thanks!

Thomas

 

[loufoque]

Phlip wrote :

XML was designed to be light

You probably missed most of XML's design.

 

[loufoque]

Thomas Lecomte wrote :

Is there any efficient library to do this? Or must I do it all myself
using libxml?

It would be smarter to use libxml++, libxml2's C++ wrapper.

 

[Noah Roberts]

Is there any efficient library to do this?

If you want efficiency you shouldn't be using xml.

 

[Phlip]

Phlip wrote :


You probably missed most of XML's design.

You snipped the half of my sentence that balanced it, then complained my
sentence was unbalanced.

I have seen people, on 'net forums, snip answering paragraphs and then claim
a question was not answered. But half a sentence??

 

[Phlip]

If you want efficiency you shouldn't be using xml.

Premature Optimization takes many forms, Noah.

 

[Thomas Lecomte]

Thomas Lecomte wrote :


It would be smarter to use libxml++, libxml2's C++ wrapper.

Thanks for pointing me out this interesting project.
I'll give it a try. Seems well-documented.

Thomas