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Description

TinyXPath is a small footprint XPath syntax decoder, written in C++.

Syntax decoding
Application to a TinyXML tree
Function to extract a result from a tree (string, node set or integer)

The name is a tribute to Lee Thomason for his TinyXML package

Capabilities

Here is the output of the regression testing. It shows all expressions currently tested.
The XPath result can be returned as a string, a node set, an integer, or a complex type being one of the above.

Documentation

Doxygen will be used extensively in the code, in order to provide appropriate documentation, available from this site.
Here is the current documentation. It includes explanations on how to use the XPath processor as well.

License

TinyXPath is covered by the zlib license :

   www.sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxpath
   Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Yves Berquin (yvesb@users.sourceforge.net)

   This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
   warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any
   damages arising from the use of this software.

   Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
   purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and
   redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

   1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must
   not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this
   software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation
   would be appreciated but is not required.

   2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and
   must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

   3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
   distribution.

Missing features

Here are the known limitations :

There is no comparison of two node sets yet.
There is no link to the DTD to provide what XPath calls a unique ID.
We do not yet recognize namespace nodes (xmlns:).
Due to a limitation in TinyXML handling of space between elements, some counts are incorrect because we don't take the whitespace between the element nodes into account

Links

Last update : April, 17th, 2006 by Yves Berquin