Expat Bindings & 3rd-party Wrappers

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• Ada
  • xlq/ada-expat
• AppleScript
  • XML Tools 2 is an AppleScript scripting addition that allows AppleScript applications to work with XML data; it is based on Expat.
• BlitzMax
  • bah.mod/expat.mod
• C
  • expat-dom — Easy-to-use DOM interface written in C
  • The Simple C Expat Wrapper is a wrapper around Expat that provides a light-weight object model somewhat like a DOM.
• C++
  • C++ Wrappers for the Expat XML Parser, an article by Tim Smith providing object-oriented wrappers for Expat. The wrappers use some MFC-biased naming, but look interesting.
  • Arabica -- an XML Parser toolkit for C++ programmers, with SAX2 implementations based on several parsers, including Expat.
  • ExpatMM -- C++ interface to Expat
  • expatpp c++ layer for expat
  • libexpatpp — a modern C++ xml parser toolkit
  • libstudxml — modern C++ XML API
• C#
  • SAXExpat.NET, a .NET wrapper for Expat, conforming to the SAX for .NET specifications.
• Dart
  • expat.dart — Dart FFI bindings
• Eiffel
  • EuExpat
  • The GOBO project is working on an Eiffel binding for Expat. Development is active and the package is fully supported in GOBO 3.0 and 3.1, though there isn't much status information about the Expat bindings on the website. (Most activity is reportedly on the relevant mailing lists.)
• Erlang
  • exml — XML parsing library in Erlang
  • fast_xml — Fast Expat based Erlang XML parsing library
• Harbour
  • hbexpat
• Haskell
  • hexpat — General purpose Haskell XML library using Expat to do its parsing
• Julia
  • LibExpat.jl — Julia interface to the Expat XML parser library
• Lua
  • LuaExpat is a wrapper around Expat for the Lua programming language. The LuaSOAP library is a SOAP implementation built on top of LuaExpat.
  • luapower/expat — expat Lua+ffi binding
• ML (Standard ML)
  • expat-sml — Experimental Expat binding for Standard ML
• Nim
  • nim-lang/expat
• node.js
  • node-expat — libexpat XML SAX parser binding for node.js
  • xml-stream
• Objective-C
  • MulleObjCExpatFoundation
  • Objective-C interface to Expat
• Object Pascal (Delphi)
  • SAX2 Wrapper for using Expat in Delphi, based on "SAX for Pascal" interface specs
• OCaml
  • OCaml Expat is a wrapper around Expat for the Objective Caml language.
  • whitequark/ocaml-expat
• Perl
  • Perl's XML::Parser module is a wrapper built around a binding to Expat in the XML::Parser::Expat module.
  • XML-Generator — Perl extension for generating XML
  • XML-Parser — Perl module for parsing XML documents
  • XML-SAX-ExpatXS — Perl SAX 2 XS extension to Expat parser
  • XML-Twig — Perl module for processing huge XML documents in tree mode
• PHP
  • XML Parser Extension — can optionally be built with expat backend.
• Python
  • cElementTree
  • Documentation for the Python interface to Expat, part of the standard documentation for Python.
• R
  • rdyncall demo for Expat
• Ruby
  • Ruby interface to Expat
  • ffi-expat — Very thin wrapper around expat using the Ruby FFI library
• Rust
  • expat-sys CARGO package
  • rexpat — a libexpat compatible Rust crate
• Simkin
  • Simkin is an open source scripting language available under the GNU LGPL. It can be embedded in XML and supports a DOM-like API backed by Expat.
• S-Lang
  • slang-expat / slexpat
• Smalltalk
  • libexpat-gst
• Swift
  • SwiftyExpat
• TCL
  • The TclXML project includes a Tcl binding for Expat
  • tDOM is an alternate package providing XML support for Tcl, based in part on Expat.
  • XOTcl — Extended Object Tcl
• Xojo
  • XMLReader class
• Vicare Scheme
  • vicare-expat — Expat binding for Vicare Scheme