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TinyXML
Lee Thomason
An open source programming library for including XML parsing in your applications.

SAX - Simple API for XML
David Megginson
An event based approach to reading XML documents. It is much more efficient than the more wellknown DOM method, but it can also be a bit more complicated to work with.

MySQL
The official homepage for MySQL.

Game File Systems: File Paths
May, 2012 - David Rosen
This blog post gives a very good summary of the many issues you might encounter when dealing with file systems under different operating systems.