XML to C struct and C struct to XML [closed]

Question

I like to do my server side programming in C, but need to inter-operate with some XML.

What I need to write is some function that, given a C structure, or nested structure, and another structure (or nested structures) that describes the elements in the C structure, spits it out as XML. And another function that reads the XML, verifies that it matches the description of the C structures, and populates the C structures.

I'm quite certain this has been done many times before, but there is so much other info about XML out there that I'm not having any luck composing a Google query that doesn't return a lot of unrelated stuff.

I'm not looking for a library - just a few hundred lines of C code to parse the XML.

Answer 1

He is not asking for an XML parser. He is asking for a library that automatically serializes/unserializes a complex C structure to and from XML (which obviously would rely on an XML parser underneath).

Libpdel is old but has support for doing what you want (via the "structs" stuff).

Answer 2

One way you could do it if you don't find any premade libraries or code is to write a toXML() function like the usual toString() functions. Then a toStruct(char*) that deserializes the XML back into the struct