Re: [Boost-users] PropertyTree's XML parsers survey

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] PropertyTree's XML parsers survey
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-15 05:13:57

The serialization library has been using the spirit library
for parsing XML for years. This is for both utf-8 and wide characters

Robert Ramey

Tan, Tom (Shanghai) wrote:
>> From: Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> PropertyTree currently has 5 (five!) different xml readers using 4
>> different parsers. I don't want to maintain them all. Looking at the
>> open tickets for PT shows that most bugs occur in the various xml
>> readers, and there's no point in having more than one.
>>
>> I just wonder which one to keep. To those who use PropertyTree's XML
>> format, which parser do you use? Do you have any experience with the
>> pros and cons of the various parsers?
>>
>> All feedback is highly appreciated.
> I had some experience with RapidXml managing the settings of my not a
> long time ago.
> Pro:
> - the API interfaces are STL-like, easy to use
> - header only
> Con:
> - ANSI only in practice
> - buggy in supporting wstring, and UNICODE. I ended up
> implementing my own version supporting UTF-16LE for Windows only based
> on RapidXml V1.11.
>
> The most wanted XML parser/writer feature for me is the support of
> wide-char(UTF16) version of UNICODE, rather than UTF8. It seems no
> light-weight XML library does it well.