NewLC - Building an XML Parser for Symbian - Comments

> Building an XML Parser for Symbian

PaulT — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:19:22 +0200

What I am looking to build is a parser that can be reused in binary form and shared amongst a number of applications - the actual code and docs will be explained in part 3.

One obvious use for this would be web services for example

I also wanted to document porting of the lib and parser from a developers point of view

> Building an XML Parser for Symbian

Simon Whiteside — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:35:04 +0200

You may be interested that I did a port of the Expat library to Symbian as part of the port of the Simkin scripting language.

It can be downloaded from the site.

The port was fairly straightforward - the main problems were with handling uninitialized static data in the DLL.

> Building an XML Parser for Symbian

paul — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:12:22 +0200

Sorry, I must apologize, you are right,

I missed the link on the right of the Enabling page which details the parser.

I have included the corrected link at the bottom of this note.

Paul

> Building an XML Parser for Symbian

hepora — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:41:31 +0200

Thanks for the informative overview of the subject. However, I just wanted to point out that our XML parser (which is a level 1 SAX parser) has no dependencies to/from our HTTP stack :-)

Br, Heikki Pora / Digia

Building an XML Parser for Symbian

paul — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:57:43 +0200

As any Symbian developer will tell you, there is no native, standards compliant XML parser that can be tailored for use in your applications. To do anything sensible with XML you really need to have a solid W3C standard compliant XML parser that can handle most things thrown at it.