zeux/pugixml

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pugixml is a light-weight C++ XML processing library providing a DOM-like interface, an extremely fast non-validating XML parser, and an XPath 1.0 implementation. It has been actively maintained since 2006, is highly portable, and is distributed under the MIT license.

Use cases

• parse xml files in c++
• query xml documents with xpath
• build and modify xml dom trees
• convert xml between unicode encodings
• read configuration files in xml format
• extract data from xml documents fast

When to choose

• you need a fast, memory-efficient DOM-based XML parser in C++
• you want XPath 1.0 querying over XML trees
• you need a small, portable, easy-to-integrate library with permissive MIT licensing
• your documents fit in memory and you don't need DTD/Schema validation

When to avoid

• you need DTD or XML Schema validation
• you must stream-process XML documents too large to fit in memory
• you need a SAX-style push/pull parser rather than a DOM tree

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization parsers developer-tools files cpp cross-platform windows xml dom xpath c-plus-plus non-validating-parser unicode linux macos

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