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<br><div><div>On 11 Nov 2013, at 07:33, David van der Spoel <<a href="mailto:spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se">spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">@Mark: an extra layer wouldn't help would it - there is no competing package as far as I know. There is, however, libxml++, a C++ wrapper around libxml2, which is slightly more logical to use in C++ code, but it would imply an extra library. On the other hand that might function as a thin wrapper around the library.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Not sure what you mean exactly by "competing package" here, but there are strong alternatives to xml (e.g. JSON, <a href="http://www.json.org">http://www.json.org</a>) that I haven't tried myself but are supposed to be very good for data interchange while at the same time being human readable and easy to parse.<div><br></div><div>Erik Markund</div><div><br></div></body></html>