Some years ago I proposed a XML-related APIs for inclusion into boost (http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2003/06/48955.php). Everybody agreed that such APIs would be very useful as part of boost. Unfortunately, though, after some weeks of discussing a number of details, I got distracted, and so I never managed to submit an enhancement. I'v now started to look into this topic again, and wrote down a start of a DOM-like API as I believe would be suitable for boost. Here are some highlights: * User access dom nodes as <>_ptr objects. All memory management is hidden, and only requires the document itself to be managed. * The API is modular to allow incremental addition of new modules with minimal impact on existing ones. This implies that implementations may only support a subset of the API. (For example, no validation.) * All classes are parametrized around the (unicode) string type, so the code can be bound to arbitrary unicode libraries, or even std::string, if all potential input will be ASCII only. * The Implementation uses existing libraries (libxml2, to be specific), since writing a XML DOM library requires substantial efford. A first sketch at a XML API is submitted to the boost file vault under the 'Programming Interfaces' category. It contains demo code, as well as some auto-generated documentation. I'm aware that this requires some more work before I can attempt a formal submission. This is simply to see whether there is still any interest into such an API, and to get some discussion on the design. Regards, Stefan