XML4C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. XML4C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. XML4C is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and associated standards ( DOM 1.0, DOM 2.0. SAX 1.0, SAX 2.0, Namespaces). XML4C 3.5.1 also provides an implementation of a subset of the Schema. The parser provides high performance, modularity, and scalability. Source code, samples and API documentation are provided with the parser. For portability, care has been taken to make minimal use of templates, no RTTI, no C++ namespaces and minimal use of #ifdefs.

XML4C has rich generating and validating capabilities. The parser is used for:

• Building XML-savvy Web servers
• Building next generation of vertical applications that use XML as their data format
• On-the-fly validation for creating XML editors
• Ensuring the integrity of e-business data expressed in XML
• Building truly internationalized XML applications

• Conforms to XML Spec 1.0
• Tracking of latest DOM (Level 1.0), DOM (Level 2.0), SAX/SAX2, Namespace specifications.
• Experimental Schema subset support
• Source code, samples, and documentation is provided.
• Programmatic generation and validation of XML
• Pluggable catalogs, validators and encodings
• High performance
• Customizable error handling

• Win32 using MSVC 6.0 SP3
• Linux (RedHat 6.1) using egcs-2.91.66 and glibc-2.1.2-11
• Solaris 2.6 using Sun Workshop 4.2
• AIX 4.3 using xlC 3.6.4
• HP-UX 11 using aCC A.03.13 with pthreads

• OS/390
• AS/400
• SGI IRIX
• Macintosh
• OS/2
• PTX
• and more!