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<li><em>Licensing Terms for libxml</em> +</ul><h3><a name="License" id="License">License</a>(s)</h3><ol><li><em>Licensing Terms for libxml</em> <p>libxml2 is released under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT License</a>; see the file Copyright in the distribution for the precise wording</p> @@ -24,8 +22,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } improvements as patches for possible incorporation in the main development tree.</p> </li> -</ol><h3><a name="Installati" id="Installati">Installation</a></h3><ol> - <li><strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use +</ol><h3><a name="Installati" id="Installati">Installation</a></h3><ol><li><strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use libxml2</li> <p></p> <li><em>Where can I get libxml</em> ? @@ -36,8 +33,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } </li> <p></p> <li><em>I see libxml and libxml2 releases, which one should I install ?</em> - <ul> - <li>If you are not constrained by backward compatibility issues with + <ul><li>If you are not constrained by backward compatibility issues with existing applications, install libxml2 only</li> <li>If you are not doing development, you can safely install both. Usually the packages <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml.html">libxml</a> and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml2</a> are @@ -49,8 +45,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } too for libxml2 >= 2.3.0</li> <li>If you are developing a new application, please develop against libxml2(-devel)</li> - </ul> - </li> + </ul></li> <li><em>I can't install the libxml package, it conflicts with libxml0</em> <p>You probably have an old libxml0 package used to provide the shared library for libxml.so.0, you can probably safely remove it. The libxml @@ -67,8 +62,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } package, providing includes, static libraries and scripts needed to build applications with libxml(2)) that you can install locally.</p> </li> -</ol><h3><a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h3><ol> - <li><em>What is the process to compile libxml2 ?</em> +</ol><h3><a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h3><ol><li><em>What is the process to compile libxml2 ?</em> <p>As most UNIX libraries libxml2 follows the "standard":</p> <p><code>gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code></p> <p><code>cd libxml-xxxx</code></p> @@ -86,16 +80,14 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } find).</p> <p>However if found at configuration time libxml2 will detect and use the following libs:</p> - <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">libz</a> : a + <ul><li><a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">libz</a> : a highly portable and available widely compression library.</li> <li>iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It is included by default in recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't need to be installed specifically on Linux. It now seems a <a href="http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html">part of the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/">implementation of the library</a> which source can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>.</li> - </ul> - </li> + </ul></li> <p></p> <li><em>Make check fails on some platforms</em> <p>Sometimes the regression tests' results don't completely match the @@ -116,8 +108,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } optimizer which miscompiles the URI module. Please use another compiler.</p> </li> -</ol><h3><a name="Developer" id="Developer">Developer</a> corner</h3><ol> - <li><em>Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxml2</em> +</ol><h3><a name="Developer" id="Developer">Developer</a> corner</h3><ol><li><em>Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxml2</em> <p>Usually the problem comes from the fact that the compiler doesn't get the right compilation or linking flags. There is a small shell script <code>xml2-config</code> which is installed as part of libxml2 usual @@ -135,8 +126,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } <p>There are many different ways to accomplish this. Here is one way to do this under Linux. Suppose your home directory is <code>/home/user. </code>Then:</p> - <ul> - <li>Create a subdirectory, let's call it <code>myxml</code></li> + <ul><li>Create a subdirectory, let's call it <code>myxml</code></li> <li>unpack the libxml2 distribution into that subdirectory</li> <li>chdir into the unpacked distribution (<code>/home/user/myxml/libxml2 </code>)</li> @@ -169,8 +159,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } program which you just installed will be used instead of the system default one, and this will <em>automatically</em> get the correct libraries linked with your program.</li> - </ul> - </li> + </ul></li> <p></p> <li><em>xmlDocDump() generates output on one line.</em> @@ -178,8 +167,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } document since <strong>all spaces in the content of a document are significant</strong>. If you build a tree from the API and want indentation:</p> - <ol> - <li>the correct way is to generate those yourself too.</li> + <ol><li>the correct way is to generate those yourself too.</li> <li>the dangerous way is to ask libxml2 to add those blanks to your content <strong>modifying the content of your document in the process</strong>. The result may not be what you expect. There is @@ -187,8 +175,7 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } affect other parts of the content of your document. See <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlKeepBlanksDefault">xmlKeepBlanksDefault ()</a> and <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlSaveFormatFile">xmlSaveFormatFile ()</a></li> - </ol> - </li> + </ol></li> <p></p> <li><em>Extra nodes in the document:</em> <p><em>For an XML file as below:</em></p> @@ -246,8 +233,7 @@ pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children;</pre> web page?</em> <p>Ideally a libxml2 book would be nice. I have no such plan ... But you can:</p> - <ul> - <li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing + <ul><li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing generated doc</a></li> <li>have a look at <a href="examples/index.html">the set of examples</a>.</li> @@ -258,21 +244,18 @@ pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children;</pre> as possible, so looking at it may be helpful. In particular the code of <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/xmllint.c?view=markup">xmllint.c</a> and of the various testXXX.c test programs should provide good examples of how to do things with the library.</li> - </ul> - </li> + </ul></li> <p></p> <li><em>What about C++ ?</em> <p>libxml2 is written in pure C in order to allow easy reuse on a number of platforms, including embedded systems. I don't intend to convert to C++.</p> <p>There is however a C++ wrapper which may fulfill your needs:</p> - <ul> - <li>by Ari Johnson <ari@btigate.com>: + <ul><li>by Ari Johnson <ari@btigate.com>: <p>Website: <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/</a></p> <p>Download: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999</a></p> </li> - </ul> - </li> + </ul></li> <li><em>How to validate a document a posteriori ?</em> <p>It is possible to validate documents which had not been validated at initial parsing time or documents which have been built from scratch |