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Integrating Portable XML Data With Portable C/C++ Code

• Tags:
• portable,
• processing,
• code,
• xml

Overview XML is changing the world of information sharing and exchange. Because XML is a well-formed markup language, a programming technology is required in order to perform processing-related tasks such as parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML data. For that reason, C and C++ are commonly used for writing XML-based applications. However, either of those languages presents challenges - although C/C++ code is theoretically portable, the associated compilation and linking processes are not. Hence, most C/C++ code needs to be compiled and linked by different means on different platforms. C/C++ code that is truly portable is not generated and executed dynamically; therefore, in those situations Java and a Java Virtual Machine are commonly used for processing XML data.

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