XML Bird – XML parser

XML Bird is an XML parser for programs written in Vala or C.

Author: Johan Mattsson
License: LGPL v3
Webpage: https://birdfont.org/xmlbird.php

Building from Source

Install valac and Glib first.

Configure, build and install with doit:

./configure
doit
sudo ./install.py

Configure, build and install without doit:

./configure
./build.py
sudo ./install.py

The default prefix is /usr/local but you can set the prefix to /usr

./configure --prefix=/usr

Exampel usage:

using B;

// Print all tags and attributes in an XML document. 
// Expected output:
// tag1
// tag2
// attribute1
public static int main (string[] arg) {
    Tag root;
    XmlParser parser;

    parser = new XmlParser ("""<tag1><tag2 attribute1=""/></tag1>""");	

    if (!parser.validate ()) {
        warning ("Invalid XML.");
        return 1;
    }

    root = parser.get_root_tag ();
    print_tags (root);

    return 0;
}


void print_tags (Tag tag) {
    print (tag.get_name ());
    print ("\n");
    print_attributes (tag);

    foreach (Tag t in tag) {
        print_tags (t);
    }
}

void print_attributes (Tag tag) {
    Attributes attributes = tag.get_attributes ();
    foreach (Attribute attribute in attributes) {
        print (attribute.get_name ());
        print ("\n");
    }
}

Hacking

There is a test suite with benchmarks. Run “doit test”.

XML Bird is a part of the Birdfont project.