[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] XML Question

[From: Karoliina Salminen]

Hi,

>> i need a tool, written in c, to create an xml document automatically
>> with c commands. Does anyone know if there is one available in maemo or
>> i should create my own?
>
> libxml is shipped with the product

libxml is really good and pretty easy and straightforward to use and quite
well documented.

However, if you want to create some simple xml, libxml is easier to use
for reading it than for writing it. I do in our 770-EFIS-display -program
so that I use libxml2 for reading the settings xml-file and for writing I
just use simply fprintf statements. The file is very simple and it is just
about 10 lines of fprintf... Depends on how you want to create your file,
do it quickly and simply or do it elegantly and more lengthy way with the
library.
I have used libxml2 for writing document in another project of mine. I use
the DOM-parser, it is the easiest way to parse or write xml (IMHO).
SAX-parser saves propably memory in some cases though. The choice is yours
and depends on your application and its goals (for reading 10 lines of XML
to DOM tree doesn't eat too much memory and thus is no big deal, but if
you are handling like 10 MB documents, you may enter into trouble with the
DOM-parser because it reads everything into memory at once).

Best Regards,
Karoliina
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