> Yikes! This is a very bad suggestion. The idea behind standards like XML is > to have standard tools to work with them, thus eliminating repeating the > same mistakes in every implementation. You don't go writing a new regular > expression parser every time you need regexes do you? To answer the > original email, there are a few XML parsers in common use out there. The > main ones for UNIX are probably libxml and expat. > > http://xmlsoft.org/ (and the C++ bindings > http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/ ) and http://expat.sourceforge.net/ I second that. Writting your own does not strike me as a good idea, as there are many out there. Why waste effort re-inventing the wheel. Just to add another, I work on a project that uses Xerces. I don't work much myself on the part that interacts with this directly, so I cannot say if I recommend it or not, but it seems to work just fine in our case, which is parsing *lots* of XML for data. http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/ Chris
