README.md

libcxml

This is a very small library which provides a slightly tidier C++ API than libxml++ for parsing XML.

For example:

cxml::Document doc("RootNodeName");
doc.read("foo.xml");

/* Get the contents of child node <Fred>, throwing an
 * exception if it does not exist
 */
string s = doc.string_child("Fred");

/* Get the contents of child node <Jim>, or 42 if it
 * does not exist
 */
int i = doc.optional_number_child<int>("Jim").get_value_or(42);

/* Get the contents of <Roger> within <Sheila>,
 * throwing an exception if either node
 * is not present.
 */
double d = doc.node_child("Sheila").number_child<double>("Roger");

For full details, see src/cxml.h

Building

./waf configure
./waf build
sudo ./waf install

Build options

--target-windows      set up to do a cross-compile to Windows
--enable-debug        build with debugging information and without optimisation
--static              build statically
--disable-tests       disable building of tests

Dependencies

• libxml++ (and libffi)

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Bug reports and queries to Carl Hetherington [email protected]