Parsifal can be used for parsing XML based messages (such as REST and RSS) and
for application specific data processing e.g. config files, data files etc.
Parsifal can also be used for document-oriented processing (e.g. XHTML
xhtml1-transitional.dtd) and for parsing modular documents because it is
conforming XML 1.0 parser and it supports features like internal and external
general entities, DTD parameter entities and default attributes etc. Parsifal is
ideal for processing large data files and streams since it's SAX based and
consumes very little memory not to mention it is fast enough for most purposes
'cos it's written in C.

Using Parsifal in place of large XML processing libraries (e.g. libxml, xerces)
or even in the place of small Expat (which doesn't support DTD validation) can
be justified for limited memory environments and in applications requiring
bundled parser; because of its modular design parsifal can be easily compiled to
support DTD validation or to perform only non-validating parsing etc. If you
need higher level tools, for example dom/xpath processing, you should look for
other libs of course.

• Igor Vlasenko
• Eugeny A. Rostovtsev (REAL)

• libparsifal
• libparsifal-debuginfo
• libparsifal-devel
• libparsifal-devel-static
• libparsifal-doc