Arabica January 2007

Arabica is a C++ XML parser toolkit that has a full SAX2 implementation (the Simple API for XML), including the optional interfaces and helper classes. It also implements the W3C DOM (Document Object Model) Level 2.0 Core, together with XPath 1.0.
It delivers UTF-8 encoded std::strings or UCS-2 std::wstrings, but can also accommodate custom string types and alternative encodings. Arabica provides uniform SAX2 wrappers for the expat parser, Xerces, libxml, and the Microsoft XML parser COM component.
Enhancements:
- Further improvements were made to the configure system.
- The build can now be configured without the Boost libraries, in which case the XPath components are skipped.
- Parser detection is improved, as is detecting the correct libraries for sockets.
- TreeWalker and NodeFilter were added.
- MSXML version checking was beefed up.
- Buffering in convertstream was reworked to reduce the number of dynamic allocations.
- LexicalHandler and DeclHandler are promoted to be part of the XMLReader interface.