A year or so ago I did some brief searching, and found these:

Recursive XML Parser in C
The idea of this project was simply to write a basic XML parser in ANSI C for portability. The parser is reasonably forgiving as I have only a fairly rudimentary knowledge about XML and wanted to keep the code reasonably straight forward.
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/data/....php/c4549


Dan Howard's "simplest XML file reader in the world"
Forget XML standards. Think the C standard. What does most software want to do with XML? Read it in from a file, process it and write it out. Every ancient C compiler could read files in, process them and write them out.
http://www.danoneverythingelse.com/articles/...lnode.html