A Programmer's Perspective

So Many Parsers, So Little Time...

Hurray! XML is a godsend to many developers who can now avoid all the chaos and confusion of I/O programming, relying instead on parsers and DOM tree objects to handle the conversion of stored information to program data and back again.
Oops! Where did all the defaulted attributes go? And how come our copyright notice now says "&cprt"?
Er... Where can I find a non-validating C (or Java, Python, Lisp, Delphi, or COBOL) parser supporting external declarations and namespaces with a tree output?
Uh... Why does my parser output look different from your output?