Arabica - An XML and HTML processing toolkit

• SAX is an event-based XML processing API. Arabica is a full SAX2 implementation, including the optional interfaces and helper classes. It provides uniform SAX2 wrappers for the Expat parser, Xerces, Libxml2 and, on Windows, for the Microsoft XML parser.
• The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface which models an XML document as a tree of nodes, defined by the W3C. Arabica implements the DOM Level 2 Core on top of the SAX layer.
• XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document. Arabica implements XPath 1.0 over its DOM implementation.
• XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Arabica builds XSLT over its XPath engine.
• In addition to the XML parser, Arabica includes Taggle, an HTML parser derived from TagSoup.

Arabica is written in Standard C++ and should be portable to most platforms. It is parameterised on string type. Out of the box, it can provide UTF-8 encoded std::strings or UTF-16 encoded std::wstrings, but can easily be customised for arbitrary string types.

2020

• Arabica: April 2020 Release - 25 April
• Arabica: Inching Toward The Future - 17 April

2012

• Arabica Release - 2012 November - 28 November

2010

• Arabica: DOM Conformance Tests - 30 December
• Arabica Release - 2010 November - 24 October

2009

• Arabica March 2009 Release - 13 March
• Arabica: What’s Going On? - 27 February

2008

• Arabica FAQ: When will Arabica’s XSLT library be finished? - 20 October
• Arabica FAQ: What are all those failing tests, and why are they ignored? - 19 October
• Arabica October 2008 Release - 18 October
• Arabica: Cutting October 2008 release - 17 October
• Arabica: impending release - 07 August
• Arabica: XSLT: Variable resolution - 06 August
• Arabica: Visual Studio, how I curse your useless warning C4800 - 28 May
• Arabica: XSLT: Implementing position matches[2] - 18 April
• Arabica: Taggle: And there it is …​ - 30 January
• Arabica: Taggle: Bringing HTML Parsing to Arabica - 29 January

2007

• Arabica: XSLT: Implementing position matches - 21 December
• Arabica: XSLT: Position matches - 17 December
• Arabica: XSLT: Test case results latest - 04 November
• Arabica: XSLT: A personal programming milestone - 03 November
• Arabica: XSLT: Test case update - 29 October
• Arabica: XPath: Interface changes - 19 October
• Arabica September 2007 Release - 19 September
• Arabica: What’s going on next? - 05 September
• Arabica August 2007 Release - 31 August
• Arabica August 2007 Build Report - 31 August
• Arabica: XSLT: Test case state of play - 28 August
• Arabica: Visual Studio 2005 Builds - 10 August
• Arabica: Always comes back to bite you in the end …​ - 07 August
• Arabica: XSLT: The Big Merge - 19 July
• Arabica: XSLT: tests - 14 June
• Arabica: XSLT: Tests - 24 February
• Arabica January 2007 Release - 23 January
• Arabica Build Matrix - 23 January
• Arabica: XSLT: extension functions - 05 January
• Arabica: XSLT: Template priority - 02 January

2006

• Arabica: DOM: TreeWalker - 14 December
• Arabica: nurdling away - 24 November
• Arabica: XSLT: xsl:import and xsl:apply-imports - 29 October
• Arabica: XSLT: xsl:include - 25 October
• Arabica: SAX: LexicalHandler and DeclHandler - 24 October
• Arabica: XSLT: Run away from the hills! If you see hills, run the other way! - 23 October
• Arabica: XSLT: variable, param and with-param - 17 October
• Arabica September 2006 Release 3 - 21 September
• Arabica September 2006 Release 2 - 18 September
• Arabica September 2006 Release - 07 September
• Arabica August 2006 Release - 04 August
• Arabica: XPath Evaluation bug - 14 June
• Arabica: Veillard was right - 11 January
• Arabica: Running a simple stylesheet - 05 January

2005

• Arabica: When is an XPath expression not an XPath expression? - 16 December
• Arabica: "Once you have an XPath engine, implementing XSLT is easy." - 13 December
• Arabica: String Pooling - 09 December
• Arabica: See the problem? - 06 December
• Arabica: Dual Streaming/DOM XML processing - 11 November
• Arabica: Working with a silly string class - 03 October
• Arabica: DOM/Text node fixes - 30 August
• Arabica: DOM/utils/stream.h - 25 August
• Arabica: Overlooking the obvious - 23 August
• Arabica: Silly strings - 19 August
• Arabica Aug-05 Release - 15 August
• Arabica: XPath: union - all done - 16 July
• Arabica: XPath: union - nearly there - 04 July
• Arabica: XPath: variables returning node-sets - 04 June
• Arabica: XPath: document order - 02 June
• Arabica: XPath: string functions - 27 May
• Arabica: XPath: unary minus - 08 May
• Arabica: XPath: node set equality - 13 April
• Arabica: SAX::ignorableWhitespace - 21 March
• Arabica: XPath: more axes - 10 February
• Arabica: XPath: predicates again - 01 February
• Arabica: XPath functions - 20 January
• Arabica: Variables in XPath expressions - 11 January

2004

• Arabica: /Happy/New/Year[2005] - 27 December
• Arabica: Milestone alert! - 10 December
• Arabica: Walking XPath Axes - 13 October
• Arabica: namespace handling bug - 04 September
• Arabica: a first step to XPath evaluation - 30 July
• Arabica: XMLBaseSupport - 28 June
• Arabica: xml:base support - 27 May
• Arabica: In which I complain about Oracle - 11 May
• Arabica: Feb-04 release - 26 February
• Arabica: The XPath grammar is, modulo whitespace, complete. - 19 February
• Arabica: XPath grammar nearly there - 18 February
• Arabica: TagSoup - 06 February
• Arabica : DTD handling fixes - 28 January
• Arabica: XPath support - 08 January
• Arabica in the wild - 06 January
• Arabica Jan-04 release - 04 January

2003

• Arabica: Now on OSX - 07 December
• Arabica: Error reporting in the DOM builder - 29 October
• Arabica: byte and char confusion - 27 October
• Arabica-Oct03 Release - 25 October
• Arabica: Shaky wchar_t - 13 September
• Arabica: Back to the Makefiles - 10 September
• Arabica: more work on making wchar_t optional - 09 September
• Arabica: wchar_t optional - 08 September
• Arabica: UTF16 and UCS-2 - 02 September
• Arabica: codecvt facets - 29 August
• Arabica: SAX Writer too - 28 August
• Arabica: operator<< for the DOM - 28 August
• Arabica: More commits - 27 August
• Arabica: In the Handbook - 02 July
• Arabica: Better XML output - 21 March
• Arabica: latest compilers and parser versions - 20 March

2002

• Arabica: Sept02 Release - 04 September
• Arabica - easing the build - 12 July
• Arabica: DOM lives! - 13 June
• Arabica: MSXML COM Improvements, Release package - 22 May
• Arabica: Suddenly, a new parser - 21 May
• Arabica: small fixes and updates - 20 May
• Arabica: SAX::Writer - 18 May
• Arabica: Catching up with the parsers - 16 May
• Arabica: April Releas - 17 April
• Arabica: Patches applied! - 15 April
• Arabica: Patches received! - 05 April
• Arabica: Xerces wacky characters - 04 March
• Arabica: At last, a successful Linux build - 26 February
• Arabica: February Release - 26 February
• Arabica: Linux build progress - 25 February
• Arabica: Filling out Xerces wrapper - 19 February
• Arabica: Adding Xerces wrapper - 18 February

2001

• SAXinCpp: December Release - 17 December
• SAXinCpp: MSXML InputSource - 29 November
• SAXinCpp: DOM Level 2 Core achieved - 14 November
• SAXinCpp: DOM Reference Counting - 12 November
• SAXinCpp: Extended Interfaces - 08 November
• SAXinCpp: Expat, resolving entities - 06 November
• SAXinCpp: Give me more compilers - 06 November
• SAXinCpp: DOM Events - 05 November
• SAXinCpp: Building a DOM - 30 October
• SAXinCpp: LibXML2 Entities - 29 October
• SAXinCpp: SAX Namespace - 18 October
• SAXinCpp: libxml2 wrapper - 18 October
• SAXinCpp: Basic HTTP Resolver - 18 October
• SAXinCpp: default_string_adaptor - 17 October
• SAXinCpp: MSXML wrapper string types - 17 October
• SAXinCpp: String types - 17 October
• SAXinCpp: Template parameter change - 16 October
• SAXinCpp: New release. - 15 October
• SAXinCpp: Back on expat wrapper - 04 October
• SAXinCpp: MSXML Lexical and Decl handlers - 03 October
• SAXinCpp now under BSD style license - 02 October
• SAXinCpp: MSXML largely done - 13 September
• SAXinCpp: Start of wrapper for MSXML - 04 September
• SAXinCpp: Start of LexicalHandler - 17 August
• SAXinCpp: Building as a library - 13 August
• SAXinCpp: Start SAX2 expat wrapper - 09 August
• SAXinCpp: Initial release - 30 July