Package: lua-xmlreader Version: 0.1 Author: A.S. Bradbury Website: http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/ License: MIT/X11 Description: Provides the XmlReader API[1] to Lua applications, using LibXML2[2]. XmlReader is an API introduced in C# that is arguably easier to use than SAX. It is a "pull" interface where you control the reader, which is a cursor moving along the document. Call methods such as reader:name() to get information about the current node and reader:read() to advance to the next. This has the advantage versus a tree model such as DOM that the whole document does not need to be loaded into memory at once. The many articles and tutorials available online referring to XmlReader/XmlTextReader in C#, Java or other languages should all be useful if you want to better understand this method of handling XML. You will require the libxml2 library. [1] = http://dotgnu.org/pnetlib-doc/System/Xml/XmlReader.html [2] = http://xmlsoft.org/