update the readme

readme.md

@@ -63,40 +63,28 @@ TinyXML-1 vs. TinyXML-2
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 TinyXML-2 is now the focus of all development, well tested, and your
-best choice unless you have a requirement to maintain TinyXML-1 code.
+best choice between the two APIs. At this point, unless you are maintaining
+legacy code, you should choose TinyXML-2.
 
 TinyXML-2 uses a similar API to TinyXML-1 and the same
 rich test cases. But the implementation of the parser is completely re-written
 to make it more appropriate for use in a game. It uses less memory, is faster,
 and uses far fewer memory allocations.
 
-TinyXML-2 has no requirement for STL, but has also dropped all STL support. All
+TinyXML-2 has no requirement or support for STL. By returning `const char*`
-strings are query and set as 'const char*'. This allows the use of internal 
+TinyXML-2 can be much more efficient with memory usage. (TinyXML-1 did support
-allocators, and keeps the code much simpler.
+and use STL, but consumed much more memory for the DOM representation.)
-
-Both parsers:
-
-1.  Simple to use with similar APIs.
-2.  DOM based parser.
-3.  UTF-8 Unicode support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
-
-Advantages of TinyXML-2
-
-1.  The focus of all future dev.
-2.  Many fewer memory allocation (1/10th to 1/100th), uses less memory
-    (about 40% of TinyXML-1), and faster.
-3.  No STL requirement.
-4.  More modern C++, including a proper namespace.
-5.  Proper and useful handling of whitespace
-
-Advantages of TinyXML-1
-
-1.  Support for some C++ STL conventions: streams and strings
-2.  Very mature and well debugged code base.
 
 Features
 --------
 
+### Code Page
+
+TinyXML-2 uses UTF-8 exclusively when interpreting XML. All XML is assumed to
+be UTF-8.
+
+Filenames for loading / saving are passed unchanged to the underlying OS.
+
 ### Memory Model
 
 An XMLDocument is a C++ object like any other, that can be on the stack, or
@@ -166,7 +154,7 @@ cannot be parsed correctly. In addition, all nodes (elements, declarations,
 text, comments etc.) and attributes have a line number recorded as they are parsed.
 This allows an application that performs additional validation of the parsed
 XML document (e.g. application-implemented DTD validation) to report
-line number information in it's errors.
+line number information for error messages.
 
 ### Entities
 
@@ -275,10 +263,10 @@ There are 2 files in TinyXML-2:
 And additionally a test file:
 * xmltest.cpp
 
-Simply compile and run. There is a visual studio 2015 project included, a simple Makefile, 
+Simply compile and run. There is a visual studio 2017 project included, a simple Makefile,
 an Xcode project, a Code::Blocks project, and a cmake CMakeLists.txt included to help you.
-The top of tinyxml.h even has a simple g++ command line if you are are *nix and don't want 
+The top of tinyxml.h even has a simple g++ command line if you are are Unix/Linuk/BSD and
-to use a build system.
+don't want to use a build system.
 
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