I want to pass XML nodes from one Windows program to another without passing megabytes of BSTR from here to there. I am investigating open source alternatives to Microsoft's MSXML for an environment using DevStudio on Windows XP SP2.
There is mention in the Xerces build instructions for how to create a COM wrapper for the Xerces 2.6.0 DOM implementation. This sounds like what I want. Googling around on this, I found one email on a list somewhere a couple of years old that suggested that the COM wrapper was going to be deprecated shortly. But it still seems to be there, and there are more recent fixes checked in in the bug database. But it is not part of the binary distribution. I need to know if this COM wrapper is a living supported stable solid part of the Xerces 2.6.0 DOM implementation. If so, it is probably just what I am looking for. Alternately, are there any other alternatives I should be looking at that would be a viable open source alternative to MSXML's COM interfaces? Thank you! Best regards, Mark Delaney (My opinions are my own. Please do not confuse them with my employer's opinons.)
