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<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>
<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>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>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>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>
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<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>
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<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>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>
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