Portably generate XML document without using a DOM

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I have a need to generate XML documents from C++. For reasons of performance I don't want to use an XML parser such as Xerces, or TinyXML and generate a DOM which I then serialize, ideally I want a kind of "reverse SAX" interface. I also need the code to be really portable, across Windows, UNIX, MacOSX etc.

The only reference so far I've found is to genx. Anyone got any other suggestions?

EDIT: This question what's the easiest way to generate xml in c++? actually seems to answer mine, or at least provides some links to other XML generating libraries.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 16:20

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Rapidxml is very fast and pretty lightweight.

answered Mar 10 '11 at 16:20

Jay

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I'll look at that one as it does claim to be lightweight, so maybe constructing the DOM and then serialising it may not be too much of a memory overhead, but ideally I'd like a streaming interface. – Tom Quarendon Mar 10 '11 at 16:40
I did explicitly say "not using a DOM". – Tom Quarendon Mar 10 '11 at 17:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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Looks like libxml2 has a streaming API. See answer to question create and stream large XML document in C++

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Mar 16 '11 at 08:04

Tom Quarendon

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Portably generate XML document without using a DOM

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