rust-xml.md

Parsers and DOM

• xml-rs: roughly XML 1.0, low-level StAX-style streaming parser; no DTD validation;
  • serde-xml-rs builds on xml-rs
• xmlparser: very similar to xml-rs
• quick-xml: almost zero-copy,
  • xml_dom builds on it.
• roxmltree: a read-only zero-copy "DOM" based on the source data. Not streaming? XML 1.0.
• rxml: "alpha-quality" restricted SAX parsing of XML 1.0 with namespacing.
  • minidom builds on it, focused on xmpp
  • domino is like minidom, but is supposed to be more general-purpose.
• html5ever "browser-grade" by Mozilla for Servo.
  • xml5ever : alpha-quality, based on html5ever; pretty popular nonetheless

Schemas

• xsd-types only XSD types, very incomplete (only numeric types at the moment)
• xml-schema is based on xml-rs and allows:

  #[derive(XmlSchema)]
  #[xml_schema(source="schema.xsd", ...)]

• xsd-parser-rs can parse .xsd files into structs. No code generation there.
• rust-xml-schema parses xsd files using xml-schema and does code generation using carllerche/codegen.