I've just made the first public release of lua-xmlreader. Description : Provides the XmlReader API[1] to Lua applications, using LibXML2[2]. XmlReader is an API introduced in C# that is arguably easier to use than SAX. It is a "pull" interface where you control the reader, which is a cursor moving along the document. Call methods such as reader:name() to get information about the current node and reader:read() to advance to the next. This has the advantage versus a tree model such as DOM that the whole document does not need to be loaded into memory at once. The many articles and tutorials available online referring to XmlReader/XmlTextReader in C#, Java or other languages should all be useful if you want to better understand this method of handling XML. You will require the libxml2 library. [1] = http://dotgnu.org/pnetlib-doc/System/Xml/XmlReader.html [2] = http://xmlsoft.org/ Please see http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/ for a usage example. The API is fully documented but probably not as clearly as it should be yet. Any questions/problems/ideas then let me know. License: MIT/X11 Homepage: http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/ Download: http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-xmlreader/ Documentation: http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/ Bugs: http://code.google.com/p/lua-xmlreader/issues/ Rockspec: http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/luarocks-developers/attachments/20080125/063c358a/lua-xmlreader-0.1-1.obj