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diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 22f013b..21d61eb 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -216,73 +216,74 @@ A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } <tr> <td bgcolor="#fffacd"> <p></p> - <p style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt">"Programmingwithlibxml2 -is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">MarkPilgrim</a></p> - <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnomeproject(but -usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free softwareavailableunder the -<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MITLicense</a>.XML -itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.text languagewhere -semantic and structure are added to the content usingextra -"markup"information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the -mostwell-knownmarkup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="python.html">avariety of language bindings</a>make it available inother -environments.</p> - <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build -andworkwithout serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, -Unix,Windows,CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p> - <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related -tomarkuplanguages:</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> + <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. +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> + <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> + <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">RFC2396</a>:Uniform - Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</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>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>andthe - 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>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 - 02May2001</a></li> - <li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a>Working - Draft7April 2004</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 -arelativelystrictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passed -all1800+ testsfrom the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS -XMLTestsSuite</a>.</p> - <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the -followingadditionalspecifications 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>thedocument - model, but it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 doesthison top of - libxml2</li> - <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC959</a>:libxml2 - implements a basic FTP client code</li> - <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC1945</a>:HTTP/1.0, - again a basic HTTP client code</li> - <li>SAX: a SAX2 like interface and a minimal SAX1 - implementationcompatiblewith early expat versions</li> + <p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a +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> + 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 -Part1:Structure</a>is being worked on but it would be far too early to -makeanyconformance statement about it at the moment.</p> + <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>providinganimplementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like - EXSLTforlibxml2</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>:animplementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3CXMLDigital Signature</a>for - libxml2</li> - <li>also check the related links section below for more related - andactiveprojects.</li> + <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> </ul> <p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p> <p> |