What are the major methods / libraries available for parsing XML?

Question

I'm performing a trade study evaluating various methods for parsing XML for a large system. I'm looking at both analytical and actual relative performance (space & time) on multiple platforms (iOS, Linux, OS X, Windows). My current candidate evaluation list of methods and libraries is the following:

• SAX
  • NSXMLParser (iOS)
• Document Object Model
  • System.Xml.XmlDocument (.NET)
• Pull Parsing
  • System.Xml.XmlReader (.NET)
  • XmlLite: A Small and Fast XML Parser for Native C++
• Data Binding
  • Java API for XML Binding (JAXB)
  • XML Schema Definition (XSD) Tool (.NET)
• XML as a Data Type
  • Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to XML (.NET)
• Virtual Token Descriptor (VTD)

Am I missing any particularly valuable tools, or different parsing methods?

Answer 1

Altova XMLSpy provides an approach to build high-performance DTD or Schema-specific XML readers and writers.

I have no experience with the product, but have built prototypes for similar tools, because I think the basic premise is extremely good.

EDIT: A comment requested a pointer to "how this is done". Dunno how they do it (know how I did it :), but here's a link that talks about at the Altova site: http://www.altova.com/xmlspy/xml-code-generation.html

Answer 2

You are missing Linq-To-Xml/XDocument which provides an alternative to XmlDocument/DOM .

Answer 3

You should add RapidXML and these:

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