ACDK XML

acdk_xml contains some classes regarding XML, including a XML-serialisation.

acdk_xml contains a class framework to parse XML and HTML files with a SAX or DOM Parser. It also validation, namespaces and XPath expressions.

The module org_xml contains the interface defintions following Java mapping of the

SAX interface (defined in

org::xml::sax and the Java mapping of the DOM (Document Object Model) by the

W3C (defined in

org::w3c::dom).

To make handling with DOM a little bit more comfortable the acdk enrich the original DOM interface with methods inspired by the

dom4j Java library.

Currently two implementation for the SAX and DOM parsers are available:

The first is based on the

expat library (which is

included in acdk_xml). It is a lean SAX implementation and has also basic DOM support. It can be found in the namespace

acdk::xml::sax and

acdk::xml::dom.

The better choice is the

libxml2 implementation, which supports namespaces, DOM Reading and Writing, parsing XML and HTML.
Access and manipulation to/of a DOM Tree is also possible via XPath expressions.
The corresponding classes can be found in the namespace

acdk::xml::libxmldom.

A copy of the underlying libxml2 C library is in

included.

Sample code can be found in

ACDK XML and the unit tests