PugiXML VS Libxml2

Compare PugiXML vs Libxml2 and see what are their differences.

PugiXML

Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support (by zeux)

Libxml2

Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2 (by GNOME)
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PugiXML Libxml2
5 1
3,802 534
- 2.6%
7.6 9.8
about 1 month ago 1 day ago
C++ C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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PugiXML

Posts with mentions or reviews of PugiXML. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

Libxml2

Posts with mentions or reviews of Libxml2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • SVG Based GUI
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2021
    Starting off, SVG is an XML encoding, which is a rather hairy thing to deal with. Just to get a feel for LOCs:

    https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2

    There's also the web's (horrible) tendency to make a diarrhea of special-purpose tags and attributes--many of which could be easily subsumed by basic turing-completeness. Compare to postscript, which was a relatively simple, turing complete, stack machine to begin with.

    And of course, if we start special-purposing things, we're no longer compliant with the standard, and it would be chaos to call it SVG at that point.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PugiXML and Libxml2 you can also consider the following projects:

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

Expat - The Expat XML Parser

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

TinyXML++ - This project is obsolete. TinyXML-2 offers a very similar C++ interface.

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

awesome-cpp - A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

fontoxpath - A minimalistic XPath 3.1 implementation in pure JavaScript

pdfalto - PDF to XML ALTO file converter