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Re: file parsing

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On 2011-12-13, Bill M <wpmccormick@just_about_everywhere.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Debian Squeeze. I'm looking to not re-invent the wheel to 
> parse typical config and xml files.

> Is there some standard lib for config file parsing? 

atleast two:

> It appears that I have libxml2 for xml file  parsing,

that's one! there's another lightweight one for parsing config files

and there's gnome-config which is ultimately XML based.

> but I don't seem to have/can't seem to find any useful 
> documentation for it. 

xmlsoft.org is the only libxml2 documentation I know of.
it's all there if you can find it.  libxml2 is sort of a 
swiss-army-knife, half the problem is picking the correct 
"blade".

> Should I be using the libxml2 package or is 
> another recommendation? Where can I get docs?

if you're targeting gnome and don't want to reinvent the wheel
gnome-config is probably the way to go,  
http://developer.gnome.org/libgnome/stable/libgnome-gnome-config.html
(it's pretty kick-arse: applications can detect config changes in
real-time etc...)

there's also this:
http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Simple-XML-Subset-Parser.html

which AIUI only uses libglib which is the lowest level gnome/gtk library.


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