The OSSP xds library is generic and extensible encoding and decoding framework for the serialization of arbitrary ISO C data types. It consists of three components: the generic encoding and decoding framework, a set of shipped engines to encode and decode values in certain existing formats (Sun RPC/XDR and XDS/XML are currently provided), and a run-time context, which is used to manage buffers, registered engines, etc. The library is designed to allow fully recursive and efficient encoding/decoding of arbitrary nested data.
