Crate xmlparser

Expand description

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

Example

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

Why a new library

The main idea of this library is to provide a fast, low-level and complete XML parser.

Unlike other XML parsers, this one can return tokens not with &str/&[u8] data, but with StrSpan objects, which contain a position of the data in the original document. Which can be very useful if you want to post-process tokens even more and want to return errors with a meaningful position.

So, this is basically an XML parser framework that can be used to write parsers for XML-based formats, like SVG and to construct a DOM.

At the time of writing the only option was quick-xml (v0.10), which does not support DTD and token positions.

If you are looking for a more high-level solution - checkout roxmltree.

Benefits

All tokens contain StrSpan objects which contain a position of the data in the original document.
Good error processing. All error types contain position (line:column) where it occurred.
No heap allocations.
No dependencies.
Tiny. ~1500 LOC and ~35KiB in the release build according to the cargo-bloat.

Limitations

Currently, only ENTITY objects are parsed from the DOCTYPE. Other ignored.
No tree structure validation. So an XML like <root><child></root></child> 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 an XML like <item a="v1" a="v2"/> will be parsed without errors. You should check for this manually.
UTF-8 only.