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<b>Related links -</b> + <b>Related links</b> </center> </td> </tr> @@ -173,44 +153,34 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } <td bgcolor="#fffacd"> <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> </td> @@ -232,232 +202,77 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } <td bgcolor="#fffacd"> <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> - - - <li>W3C - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id -</a> - Working Draft 7 - April 2004 -</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> +relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passed all +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> - - 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> - - +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> + the document model, but 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 SAX2 like interface and a minimal SAX1 implementation compatible + with early expat versions</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> </td> </tr> |