As I announced earlier, I've released a library that can be used to create SOAP servers. Since this code relies heavily on XML, I've implemented a full XML parser and XPath implementation as well. I've read a bit in the discussion on this forum regarding the implementation of XML parsers and I get the feeling some don't fully appreciate the amount of work that goes into writing a validating parser. There really is more to XML than the characters < and >. :-) If there's a DOCTYPE, the results of parsing a file can be surprising since the DTD can e.g. specify default attribute values. To test libzeep I'm using the 1808 test files provided by the w3c organisation. Of these I only test against 1490 since the others only check unicode characters that are allowed since XML version 1.1. Of the remaining 1490 only 14 produce dubious output, I'm not really sure if these tests are wrong or that my code is incorrect. Anyway, libzeep performs quite nicely. The code has not yet been profiled but I've been able to replace libxml2 in all my projects and see hardly any performance degradation and my code looks much better now. All in all, I think libzeep is quite feature complete, robust and performs nicely. I've released the code and minimal documentation at http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/libzeep Now suppose people here are interested in this library, I'm willing to spend some time to upgrade the code to boost quality standards and write more documentation. And if the boost community prefers another approach I'm willing to provide help based on my recent experience. I'm looking forward to your feedback. -maarten