# lua-xmlreader

**Repository Path**: mirrors_LuaDist/lua-xmlreader

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: lua-xmlreader
- **Description**: An implementation of the XmlReader API using libxml2
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-07

## Categories & Tags

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## README

Package: lua-xmlreader
Version: 0.1
Author: A.S. Bradbury
Website: http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/
License: MIT/X11
Description:
  Provides the XmlReader API[1] to Lua applications, using LibXML2[2].  
  XmlReader is an API introduced in C# that is arguably easier to use than 
  SAX. It is a "pull" interface where you control the reader, which is a 
  cursor moving along the document. Call methods such as reader:name() to get
  information about the current node and reader:read() to advance to the next.  
  This has the advantage versus a tree model such as DOM that the whole 
  document does not need to be loaded into memory at once. The many articles 
  and tutorials available online referring to XmlReader/XmlTextReader in C#, 
  Java or other languages should all be useful if you want to better 
  understand this method of handling XML. You will require the libxml2 
  library.

  [1] = http://dotgnu.org/pnetlib-doc/System/Xml/XmlReader.html
  [2] = http://xmlsoft.org/