The MSXML Parser

The Microsoft parser in C is not available as source code, but it is available as a DLL and an ActiveX object. The DLL is MSXML.dll, and the ActiveX object is Microsoft.XMLDOM. Microsoft makes the following claims for its parser:

  • 100% compliance with the W3C XML 1.0

  • 100% compliance with the XML DOM

  • Support for ECMAScript, Java, Perl, Python, SQL, the Visual Basic development system, the Visual C++ development system, and Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)

  • Full support for DTDs and validation

  • Support for XSL

  • Support for querying

  • Support for Namespaces

  • A schema technology preview

Obtaining and Using the Parser

The parser can be obtained from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/tools/xmlparser/xmlparser.asp. It comes as a self-loading ...

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