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- <title>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</title>
+ <title>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome
+</title>
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- <h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1>
- <h2>libxml</h2>
+ <h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome
+</h1>
+ <h2>libxml
+</h2>
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- <b>Main Menu</b>
+ <b>Main Menu
+</b>
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<ul>
<li>
- <a href="index.html">Home</a>
+ <a href="index.html">Home
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="intro.html">Introduction</a>
+ <a href="intro.html">Introduction
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>
+ <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a>
+ <a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu
+</a>
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- <a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a>
+ <a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help
+</a>
</li>
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- <a href="help.html">How to help</a>
+ <a href="help.html">How to help
+</a>
</li>
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- <a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a>
+ <a href="downloads.html">Downloads
+</a>
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- <a href="news.html">News</a>
+ <a href="news.html">News
+</a>
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- <a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a>
+ <a href="XMLinfo.html">XML
+</a>
</li>
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- <a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a>
+ <a href="XSLT.html">XSLT
+</a>
</li>
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- <a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a>
+ <a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs
+</a>
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- <a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a>
+ <a href="encoding.html">Encodings support
+</a>
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- <a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a>
+ <a href="catalog.html">Catalog support
+</a>
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- <a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a>
+ <a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces
+</a>
</li>
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- <a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a>
+ <a href="contribs.html">Contributions
+</a>
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- <a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a>
+ <a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples
+</a>
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- <a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a>
+ <a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu
+</a>
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<li>
- <a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a>
+ <a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines
+</a>
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- <b>Related links</b>
+ <b>Related links
+</b>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
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<ul>
<li>
- <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a>
+ <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a>
+ <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a>
+ <a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a>
+ <a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a>
+ <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a>
+ <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a>
+ <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a>
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings
+</a>
</li>
<li>
- <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a>
+ <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker
+</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<p></p>
<p style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt">"Programming
-with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">Mark
-Pilgrim</a></p>
+with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger."
+ <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">Mark
+Pilgrim
+</a>
+</p>
<p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
(but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available
-under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
-License</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.
+under the
+ <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
+License
+</a>
+. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.
text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using
extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most
-well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in
-other environments.</p>
+well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C
+ <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings
+</a>
+ make it available in
+other environments.
+</p>
<p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
-CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
+CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)
+</p>
<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
-languages:</p>
- <ul><li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
- <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
- <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
- Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
- <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
- <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
- <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
- <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
- <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
- and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
- [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li>
- <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
- <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html</a></li>
- <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
- and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n</a></li>
- <li>Relax NG, ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003, <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html</a></li>
- <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
- 2001</a></li>
+languages:
+</p>
+ <ul> <li>the XML standard:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>Namespaces in XML:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>XML Base:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396
+</a>
+ :
+ Uniform Resource Identifiers
+ <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>HTML4 parser:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as
+ <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044
+</a>
+ [UTF-8]
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781
+</a>
+
+ [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001:
+ <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n
+</a>
+
+ and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>Relax NG, ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003,
+ <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
+ 2001
+</a>
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>W3C
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id
+</a>
+ Working Draft 7
+ April 2004
+</li>
+
+
</ul>
<p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a
relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all
-1800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
-Suite</a>.</p>
+1800+ tests from the
+ <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
+Suite
+</a>
+.
+</p>
<p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
-specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
- <ul><li>Document Object Model (DOM) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/</a>
+specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:
+</p>
+ <ul> <li>Document Object Model (DOM)
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/
+</a>
+
it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of
- libxml2</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
- libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
- HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
- <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
- versions</li>
- <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
- XML</li>
+ libxml2
+</li>
+
+
+ <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959
+</a>
+ :
+ libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code
+</li>
+
+
+ <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945
+</a>
+ :
+ HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
+ versions
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
+ XML
+</li>
+
+
</ul>
- <p>A partial implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
-1: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
-conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
- <p>Separate documents:</p>
- <ul><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
+ <p>A partial implementation of
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
+1: Structure
+</a>
+ is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
+conformance statement about it at the moment.
+</p>
+ <p>Separate documents:
+</p>
+ <ul> <li> <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page
+</a>
+ providing an
implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
- libxml2</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
- : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
- implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
- Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
- <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
- projects.</li>
+ libxml2
+</li>
+
+
+ <li> <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page
+</a>
+
+ : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2
+</li>
+
+
+ <li> <a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page
+</a>
+: an
+ implementation of
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
+ Digital Signature
+</a>
+ for libxml2
+</li>
+
+
+ <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
+ projects.
+</li>
+
+
</ul>
- <p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p>
+ <p>Logo designed by
+ <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage
+</a>
+.
+</p>
<p>
- <a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a>
+ <a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard
+</a>
</p>
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