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Libbson
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A Cross Platform BSON Library for C

Introduction
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libbson builds, parses, and iterates `BSON <http://bsonspec.org>`_ documents, the native data format of MongoDB. It also converts BSON to and from JSON, and provides a platform compatibility layer for `the MongoDB C Driver <http://mongoc.org/>`_.

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  installing

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  tutorial

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  guides

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  cross-platform-notes

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  api