XML Unleashed

Chapter 14. Parsing XML with C++

In This Chapter

• Why a Parser in C?

• The Expat Parser

• IBM's XML Parser for C++

• Microsoft Parsers for C

• The MSXML Parser

• Building a Parser Interface with MSXML

• Bugs in the MSXML Parser

• Using C Parsers in Document and DTD Design

Parsers are used in two situations, as standalone parsers, and as embedded devices in another application. As you learned in Chapter 12, "XML Processing Basics," parsers come in two flavors:

• Those that check to see that a document is well-formed.

• Those that validate a document against a DTD.

In this chapter we will look at some of the parsers available in C. You'll learn about the parser in C by James Clark, called Expat, that is the basis for the Gecko and Mozilla family of browsers. Also, we'll ...