xmlparser

xmlparser is a low-level, pull-based, zero-allocation XML 1.0 parser.

Example

rust for token in xmlparser::Tokenizer::from("<tagname name='value'/>") { println!("{:?}", token); }

Why a new library?

This library is basically a low-level XML tokenizer that preserves the positions of the tokens and is not intended to be used directly. If you are looking for a higher level solution, check out roxmltree.

Benefits

• All tokens contain StrSpan structs which represent the position of the substring in the original document.
• Good error processing. All error types contain the position (line:column) where it occurred.
• No heap allocations.
• No dependencies.
• Tiny. ~1400 LOC and ~30KiB in the release build according to cargo-bloat.
• Supports no_std builds. To use without the standard library, disable the default features.

Limitations

• Currently, only ENTITY objects are parsed from the DOCTYPE. All others are ignored.
• No tree structure validation. So an XML like <root><child></root></child> or a string without root element will be parsed without errors. You should check for this manually. On the other hand <a/><a/> will lead to an error.
• Duplicated attributes is not an error. So XML like <item a="v1" a="v2"/> will be parsed without errors. You should check for this manually.
• UTF-8 only.

Safety

• The library must not panic. Any panic is considered a critical bug and should be reported.
• The library forbids unsafe code.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.