A C++ implementation of for the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. Originally a wrapper for the EXIP library.
Reading and writing are now complete for "schemaless" bit/byte streams. A full test suite will be added soon. Currently Windows Clang only.
While doing research for my website, I fell down the rabbithole of data encoding formats. I then stumbled across the EXI format, but discovered it didn't really have any C++ libraries for it. So... I made my own.
I've decided to completely rewrite exip in C++. There were major issues with the library, but the tipping point was its complete inability to handle other libs outputs.
It was also obviously not written to be used for real XML inputs. There are a mountain of bugs and inefficiencies that I've been taping over, and a lack of support for essential options (like compression).
And while I could go through the whole codebase and fix all these issues, I wanted to write a safer and more efficient version from the start.
You can find the new TODO list here.
With some changes to exip's lookup and allocation methods, as well as the new HashTable, large files can be encoded up to 14400 times faster than the standalone library. You can read about my changes here.
This will be removed in a future version, but can be found in the exip-wrapper branch.