XML

The intent of this library is to provide a simple (and compact) means of reading and writing XML data from a sketch. As such, this is not a full-featured library for handling XML data. For those who need it, more sophisticated libraries are available. There are no plans to add significant new features to this library.

In beta release 0136, the XML library grew from 6k to 29k as we moved to NanoXML instead of NanoXML Lite. We found that the Lite version, while useful for many cases, could not handle many documents that we wanted to support (e.g. those with certain kinds of CDATA sections).

The code is from NanoXML 2.2.3 Lite from Marc De Scheemaecker. His project is online at http://nanoxml.cyberelf.be/. Some interfaces to the code have been changed, and the package naming has been altered, however it should be clear that this code is almost entirely his work, with no connection to the Processing project.

Starting with Processing release 0134, all files loaded and saved by the Processing API (and its libraries, such as the XML library) use UTF-8 encoding. In previous releases, the default encoding for your platform was used, which causes problems when files are moved to other platforms. The encoding attribute inside an XML file is ignored.