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Subj : Re: XML, DOM and BC++
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Benjamin Pratt" <benjamin.pratt.getridofthis@verizon.net>
Date : Thu Oct 23 2003 02:52 pm

You should be able to use the MSXML engine with BC5. It is a COM library and
provides interfaces to XML using DOM or SAX. DOM and SAX are two different
standard interfaces for accessing XML files. They do not specify an
implementation, just the interface. Thus MSXML is one implementation of DOM
and SAX interfaces.

SAX is a lightweight interface for quickly reading an XML file. DOM is more
complicated and allows for read/write access. Neither is very difficult.

The documentation for MSXML on MSDN is the best I have ever seen. I got up
to speed entirely from that resource and did not require any additional
books on DOM or SAX, its that good. However, I don't think BC5 supports type
libraries for COM programming. Hence the 'smart-pointer' syntax that the
MSDN documentation uses you will need to translate into normal COM
CreateInstance, HRESULT, etc. stuff.

If you need any other help, just post :)

Regards,
Ben

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