alt Hacker NewsI've been making a Rust-based XML parser that can be used on its own, or as a drop-in replacement for libxml2 at the C ABI level. Basically, it's not only 2x faster than libxml2, but being written in Rust eliminates a lot of cybersecurity risk. Roughly 70% of CVEs come from memory-safety bugs, a whole class that Rust rules out at compile time.
This is very cool! I was just looking for such a project and ended up using quick-xml since it satisfied my use case (needed to stream certain matches from a big XML file), and I didn't see yours. I love that it is a drop in for libxml2, that must have been a challenging constraint.
I will seriously consider adopting it as long as it supports streaming matches (it seems like it does).