badxml

A really BAD (but tiny) xml parser

This is a one-file library for parsing text to a very simple object model, recognizing the most basic XML syntax. The only things recognized are:

• Elements (tags with names)
• Attributes (values need to be provided, double quoted, single quoted and even bareword are supported)
• The content of elements (anything between opening and closing tag as text)

It might be useful in cases where you don't need a real XML parser and pulling in a big library seems not feasible.

What badxml supports

• parsing text to an object model, containing the above mentioned
• providing basic error messages with line and column number

Things NOT supported

(This list is probably incomplete)

• Character encodings
• Doctypes, XSD and the like
• XML entities
• CDATA sections
• namespaces

Note on building / using

The build system here will build libraries (static and dynamic, for windows a DLL and an import library). This is probably overkill for most cases, but why not when I had a build system lying around doing this -- this might become a separate project later.

Typical usage would probably be to just include the files badxml.c and badxml.h in your own source tree and maybe adapt the #include in badxml.c to your source tree layout.

Features maybe added later

Waiting for suggestions ... anything that won't bloat it might be added if it seems useful.