c++ linux library for creating an xml and reading from an xml (serialize/ deserialize)

I am working in Ubuntu. I 开发者_Go百科have a .h file with a class and a lot of nested classes. I would like to create an XML file from an object. Can someone please give me a library that creates XML files, serializes, and deserializes objects? I am compiling with g++.

Try libxml2.

But it seems like you want to serialize and desirialize an object from and to XML. Boost::serialization might come in handy. it also supports serialization from and to XML.

Here you can find an example for Boost::serialization with XML.

If you want to handle XML in C++ you may have a look at these projects

http://xmlsoft.org/

http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/

http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/

It doesn't serialize with XML (which I consider a feature, personally), but Google protocol buffers does a good job of serializing (in a binary format) objects that are defined in the .proto language.

You may want to explore the XML Data Binding. The main idea is that given an xml schema the data binding software generates a class hierarchy corresponding to the schema, and the code to serialize / unserialize (called marshal / unmarshal). There are several tools that can do this, gsoap is a free one, xmlSpy is one of the commercial ones.

What you describe is an XML data binding for C++. There are several tools for what you want to do, see e.g. XML Data Binding Tools. I've used gSOAP for several C++ projects, including starting from C++ files with classes which is really nice (other tools force you to start from XML schemas or WSDLs). With gSOAP I have been able to generate XML schemas and XML, see e.g. map C/C++ types to XML schema.

A super-lightweight, simple xml library is pugixml.

Though keep in mind that C++ does not have the reflection capabilities that .NET has. No library will generate the serialization/deserialization code for you (which I guess you hoped for).