Getting Started with Mini-XML

This chapter describes how to write programs that use Mini-XML to access data in an XML file. Mini-XML provides the following functionality:

• Functions for creating and managing XML documents in memory.
• Reading of UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded XML files and strings.
• Writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files and strings.
• Support for arbitrary element names, attributes, and attribute values with no preset limits, just available memory.
• Support for integer, real, opaque ("cdata"), and text data types in "leaf" nodes.
• "Find", "index", and "walk" functions for easily accessing data in an XML document.

Mini-XML doesn't do validation or other types of processing on the data based upon schema files or other sources of definition information, nor does it support character entities other than those required by the XML specification.