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Measure Various Ways to Read (parse) XML Documents

Two key factors I noticed when reviewing these products are:

• Do you need to validate the xml ?
• Do you need to support wide characters ?

The following tests only measure the time to read and extract the name and value of every xml node and all of its attribute names and values. In my case, I did not need to validate the XML document.

The pseudo code is:

void test()
{
    XmlObject xml;
    xml.open(filename)
    load(xml.top());
}

void load(XmlNode& node)
{
    // Read all attributes
    while (node.GetAttribute(name, value))
    {
        node.NextAttribute())
    }

    XmlNode cNode
    while (node.GetChild(cNode))
    {
        load(cNode);
    }
}

Based on my very simple test and narrow testing criteria, I would recommend CMarkup as the best solution, ignoring my own custom reader. CMarkup has a very clean and easy to use interface and is very fast.

Links to product websites:

XML solutions I did not test: