Good and minimal XML parsing library?

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hw-xml has a very specific place it is designed for, which is succinct indexing and lookup within large files, not whole-document parsing (i.e. its designed for a very specific out-of-band sort of usage). it also has a lot of sharp edges and needs care to be used correctly – i suspect the benchmarking doesn’t exercise its strong point, but does indicate that xeno would be preferable for other cases, and the low-dep-footprint is a huge plus. xml is certainly a place where there’s little in the way of “one size fits all” answers.