Chilkat v11.5.0 Release Notes

Pinned June 2, 2026

  ✨ New Features HttpCurl A new Chilkat class has been added: HttpCurl The Chilkat.HttpCurl class executes curl commands and can automatically resolve dependent values needed by a request. Variables such as {{access_token}}, {{site_id}}, or {{drive_id}} may appear in URLs, headers, query parameters, or request bodies. If a variable is not yet known, HttpCurl builds […]

Chilkat v11.4.0 Release Notes

Pinned April 1, 2026

  ✨ New Features Js A new Chilkat class has been added: Js is a minimal, standards-compliant JavaScript engine designed to embed JavaScript inside applications with very small footprint and fast startup. It executes JavaScript code inside an application without requiring a browser or large runtime. See About the Chilkat.Js JavaScript Engine Ai Provider — […]

Does XML Convert to JSON in an Unambiguous Way?

June 9, 2023 in Uncategorized

Chilkat does not provide functionality for XML-to-JSON conversion (or the reverse) because XML does not convert to JSON in an unambiguous way. XML and JSON have different structural and data modeling principles, leading to potential challenges and ambiguities during the conversion process. Some factors that contribute to the potential ambiguities are: Hierarchical vs. Flat Structure: […]

SOAP UI WSDL to Chilkat Code

November 21, 2018 in SOAP

Chilkat now has an Online SOAP WSDL Code Generator You can generate code and SOAP request/response XML from an online WSDL URL.  The cumbersome and complicated procedure below is no longer needed. See the new Chilkat SOAP WSDL Code Generator at https://tools.chilkat.io/soap_wsdl_generate_code     These are the old instructions for using SoapUI.  It is much […]

Parsing Extremely Large XML Files

October 15, 2018 in Uncategorized

Question: I’m trying to read a very large xml file. It’s about 500MB. The content is a list of records. There are about 100,000 nodes with the same tag that contain single records.   Is there a limit on the file size or number of nodes that can be processed? Answer: There is no limit other […]

v9.4.1 XML .NET SearchForTag Bug and Workaround

July 31, 2013 in Uncategorized

A bug affecting the .NET (C# and VB.NET) implementations of the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods was introduced in v9.4.1.  The problem has to do with passing a null (in C#) or Nothing (in VB.NET) for the first argument in the Chilkat.Xml.Search* methods.  Passing a null  should be a valid and common practice — it means to begin […]

XML “child” Defined

October 8, 2008 in Uncategorized

This post clarifies the meaning of “child”. An XML node may have 0 or more child nodes. A child node is a direct descendent of the parent (i.e. it is one level below the parent node). Methods such as NumChildrenHavingTag will return the number of direct descendents (i.e. nodes that are exactly one level below […]

XML Search Clarification – Breadth-first Search

September 8, 2008 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat XML component library (for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, VB6, FoxPro, Delphi, C++, C, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.) has a number of Search* methods. These methods search for a node in the XML document matching a specific criteria. For example, SearchForTag searches for the 1st node that has a tag with a specific […]