It is very important to understand the XML-DOM before you implement in your c++ application. Now a days XML plays a very important role, including information storage and retrieval, publishing and network communication.

Some useful XML tutorial links:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html?page=2
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/default.asp

Sometime XML also plays a very important role, if you are designing any music application.

There are some good resources for XML C++ library implementations
both commercial and open-source.

Please look at the following links -

• Xerces-C++

• libxml++

• tinyxml