LuaExpat
XML Expat parsing for the Lua programming language

Overview

LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library.

LuaExpat is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.0.

Status

Current version is 1.0.1. It has been tested in Linux, Windows and MacOS X with Expat 1.95.8.

Download

LuaExpat source can be downloaded from its LuaForge page. If you are using LuaBinaries Release 2 a Windows pre-compiled version of LuaExpat can also be found at the same LuaForge page.

History

  • [06/Jun/2005] Version 1.0.1 released
  • [2/Dec/2004] Version 1.0 released
  • [4/Apr/2004] Version 1.0 beta released
  • [10/Dec/2003] Version 1.0 alpha released

Version 1.0.1 has some minor changes to follow Expat's version 1.95.8.

LuaExpat 1.0 follows the package model for Lua 5.1 (see section Installation for more details).

References

LuaExpat uses the Expat library. For details on the C API please refer to the article "Using Expat".

Lua Expat implements the SAX API.

Credits

Version 1.0 was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, André Carregal and Tomás Guisasola as part of the Kepler Project. The implementation is compatible with Lua 5.0 and was coded by Roberto Ierusalimschy, based on a previous design by Jay Carlson.

LuaExpat development was sponsored by Fábrica Digital and FINEP.

Contact

For more information please contact us. Comments are welcome!

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