Specification

Technical specification and supported features

Support for Part 3, 4 and 5 of the MPEG-7 (version 1, 2001) standard (about 1200 classes)
Serializes the whole tree or parts of it
Serializes to string, console output or file
Access of nodes with XPath statements
Creates sub-trees from XPath statements
Extension mechanism
Browseable HTML documentation
Schema validation and namespace checking (at parsing time)
Patterns (e.g. MediaTimePoint and Duration) are extracted to numbers – no inefficient and time consuming string processing necessary
Works with UNICODE and standard character encodings (ISO Latin-1, UTF-8, UTF-16)
Class functionality can be added at runtime (late binding)
Extension mechanism is very easy to use
Handles ‘Conformance under extension’ described in MPEG-7 standard (Part 7)
Cross-platform: available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Future proof – automatic code generation allows fast library update when future MPEG-7 versions are released
Locking mechanism and update notifications if nodes are changed
NEW from version 2.3.0 on: source release (under LGPL) available

Win32/64
MS Visual C++ Compiler .NET 2008, 2010, GCC 4 on Linux/Unix, XCode 2.4 or newer on Mac OS X
Xerces C++ 3.1.1, http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html
Use runtime-type information (RTTI), Multi-threaded DLL Runtime Library