Expat XML Parser

Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). An introductory article on using Expat is available on xml.com.

• Expat project page (includes downloads)
• Mailing lists
• CVS repository (browse online)
• Bug reports

This project aims to maintain Expat for both current and future users while improving the API to allow more reliable and robust access from "scripting" languages such as Python and Perl. We invite the community to participate on the mailing lists to help shape the future of Expat.

References

If you know of any additional articles or resources which should be linked to from this page, please send email to Fred Drake (fdrake@acm.org). We're especially interested in links to tutorial information and open source interfaces to Expat from languages other than C.

• James Clark's original Expat page, for Expat 1.2 and earlier
• Introductory article on using Expat on xml.com
• Documentation for the Python interface to Expat, part of the standard documentation for Python
• C++ interface to Expat (not updated since Expat 1.2)
• The TclXML project includes a Tcl binding for Expat
• Objective-C interface to Expat
• Ruby interface to Expat
• Article on using Expat from PHP on <?PHPBuilder?>
  (broken into lots of tiny pieces)