Re: XML Parse into Structure

You can use SCEW (Simple C Expat Wrapper). I think it does what you need,
and it also allows you to create in-memory XML trees and dump them to
files/memory/...

http://www.nongnu.org/scew/

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 20:13, Nick MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Vijay:
>
> If you want an "in memory" representation of your XML file, you
> probably don't want or need to use a SAX based parser like eXpat which
> is event based.  You'd probably rather find a DOM based parser which
> is expressly designed to build a Document Object Model (the DOM in the
> name) in memory.  You could of course layer a DOM module on top of
> eXpat, but I suspect that's a fair amount of work that has already
> been done many times before, if you do some searching on Source Force
> and other open source repositories I'm sure you'll find a lot of
> examples.  The whole idea to use SAX is to be able to process a
> document with minimal memory overhead... and thus to be able to handle
> exceptionally large documents that would use too much memory if they
> were loaded into memory all at once.  (And SAX would be faster if you
> were just searching quickly inside a document... no overhead loading
> into memory that parts you'd never use.)
>
> Good luck,
>  Nick
>
>