libxml2 can be massive overkill if you just want to parse XML data. Unless you need schema validation and namespaces and all that jazz, you can parse XML in C w

libxml2 can be massive overkill if you just want to parse XML data. Unless you need schema validation and namespaces and all that jazz, you can parse XML in C with a simple state machine of ~200 lines. Add another 200 to build a DOM-like structure. https://github.com/ccxvii/snippets/blob/master/xml.c#L326 https://github.com/ccxvii/snippets/blob/master/xml.c#L326 Or in lua with ~200 lines altogether: https://github.com/ccxvii/snippets/blob/master/xml.lua https://github.com/ccxvii/snippets/blob/master/xml.lua