RapidXML Review

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A very fast, stable, and small XML DOM-parser written in C++. It is aimed primarily for embedded environments, computer games or any other applications where available memory or CPU processing power comes at a premium.

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Pros

Pro
Header-only implementation

This allows for a very simple integration process of the parser into your code. Only the .hpp file would need to be included into the library.

Pro
Very fast parsing speed

"... parsing speed is about 50-100x faster than Xerces DOM, 30-60x faster than TinyXml, 3-12x faster than pugxml, and about 5% - 30% faster than pugixml"

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Allows modification of the DOM tree

The DOM tree that is created from the parser is fully modifiable. Nodes and attributes can be added/removed, and their contents changed.

Cons

Con
Not W3C compliant

Ignoring DOCTYPE declarations causes RapidXML to not be a W3C compliant parser. Though it can still successfully parse and produce complete trees of all valid XML files.