Expat VS ZLib

Compare Expat vs ZLib and see what are their differences.

Expat

The Expat XML Parser (by coapp-packages)

ZLib

A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. (by madler)
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Expat ZLib
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8 5,219
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0.0 8.9
over 6 years ago 3 days ago
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- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Expat

Posts with mentions or reviews of Expat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.
  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    Expat - Stream-oriented XML parser. MIT

ZLib

Posts with mentions or reviews of ZLib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Expat and ZLib you can also consider the following projects:

Libxml2 - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases

Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

brotli - Brotli compression format

Xerces-C++ - Apache Xerces-C validating XML parser

TinyXML - TinyXML2 is a simple, small, efficient, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrated into other programs.

zlib-ng - zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems.

libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library