Hi, I saw there was some discussion on this list regarding an XML library. I wrote a C++ based XML library recently as part of the work I do on e.g. MRS, a full-text retrieval system for biological databanks. (See http://mrs.cmbi.ru.nl/ ) I extracted the XML and SOAP code from the MRS project and wrapped it into a new library. This library is called libzeep and I've put the code on Berlios (http://libzeep.berlios.de/). License is Boost. The library currently consists of: - a SAX parser with validation support based on DTD. - a simple XML library for nodes, elements, etc. - an XML writing utility/wrapper. - an xpath implementation And then the code contains a full high-performance SOAP server implementation. This code generated all SOAP related code and WSDL generator code based on the signature of exported server methods. No need to run a separate code generating tool. Network code is based on asio and I've implemented an optional pre-forked mode of operation. A previous version of libzeep is in production use for over a year now and I recently added the parser and xpath stuff to be able to drop libxml2 from the requirements for MRS. Code comes with quite a few test sets. Documentation is not updated yet for the parser and xpath but there is some for the SOAP part. I need to do a bit more testing before I can release a new version. My question now is, would this library be of interest to Boost? Perhaps it can be used, or parts of it can be recycled. And if there is interest, I'm sure there must be suggestions for improvement. You can browse the code at https://svn.cmbi.ru.nl/libzeep/trunk/ (There's also a copy at Berlios, but that may be out-of-date) The application zeep-test is a simple SOAP server, in ./tests/ you can find two simple test drivers, one for the parser and one for xpaths. Best regards, -maarten hekkelman