CTPL overview

Introduction

CTPL is a template library written in C. It allows fast and easy parsing of templates from many sources (including in-memory data and local and remote streaming, thanks to GIO) and fine control over template parsing environment.

CTPL depends on the following libraries:

GLib	General purpose C utility library
GIO	GLib's I/O abstraction library

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

It is a library, then it can be easily used from programs;
Separated lexer and parser;
It is written in portable C;
Simple syntax;
Fast and strict parsing;
Possible in-memory parsing, allowing non-file data parsing and avoiding I/O-latency, through GIO's GMemoryInputStream and GMemoryOutputStream.

Disadvantages

Since the input is first completely loaded as a token tree in memory -- which is also one of the advantages -- , it may consume a little more memory than the input template size.