I’ve made good use of PugiXML: https://pugixml.org/ https://pugixml.org/. Faster than most SAX parsers with the simpler interface of DOM. Gets around the small

I’ve made good use of PugiXML: https://pugixml.org/ https://pugixml.org/. Faster than most SAX parsers with the simpler interface of DOM. Gets around the small allocation problem by making a mutable copy of the entire input, then modifying it in place, and only allocating (using arenas) when absolutely necessary. C++ though so not very easy to use from other languages like libxml2 is.