Question

I’m looking for a very portable, minimalistic/small XML/configuration language library in ANSI C with no external dependencies (or very few), compiling down to less than 100K. I need it for a moderately complex configuration file, and it must support Unicode.

Some more requirements:

1. OK to use/embed/statically link into proprietary code. Credit will always will be given where credit is due.
2. Not necessarily XML.
3. Really, clean code/no weird or inconsistent string handling.
4. UTF-8.

Thank you fellas.

Answer 1

This is somehow similar to this question: Is there a good tiny XML parser for an embedded C project?

I was able to tweak the compilation flags of the following XML parser libraries for C, and cut down more than 50% of their size on my Ubuntu machine. Mini-XML is the only one close to what you requested:

• Mini-XML (36K)
• Expat (124K)
• RXP (184K)