XML Unleashed

Microsoft Parsers for C

Microsoft has two parsers in C. The first is simply a lint checker that checks to see that the document is well-formed and valid. The second is a full-blown parser and DOM engine that claims to be 100% conformant—in fact, it's about 99.5 % conformant—and provides full support for the DOM and limited support for XSL. The second parser is discussed in the section "The MSXML Parser" later in this chapter.

The Xmlint.exe Parser

The lint-checker is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.asp. You can search for xmlint.exe, which is extremely fast. Also, like the other two parsers, xmlint.exe runs from the command line. The error messages are probably the best of all the command-line parsers so it's extremely ...