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+/**
+ * uri.c: library of generic URI related routines 
+ *
+ * Reference: RFC 2396
+ *
+ * See Copyright for the status of this software.
+ *
+ * Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
+ */
+
+#ifndef __XML_URI_H__
+#define __XML_URI_H__
+
+#include <libxml/tree.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/**
+ *
+ */
+typedef struct _xmlURI xmlURI;
+typedef xmlURI *xmlURIPtr;
+struct _xmlURI {
+    char *scheme;
+    char *opaque;
+    char *authority;
+    char *server;
+    char *user;
+    int port;
+    char *path;
+    char *query;
+    char *fragment;
+};
+
+/*
+ * This function is in tree.h:
+ * xmlChar *	xmlNodeGetBase	(xmlDocPtr doc,
+ *                               xmlNodePtr cur);
+ */
+xmlURIPtr	xmlCreateURI		(void);
+xmlChar *	xmlBuildURI		(const xmlChar *URI,
+	                        	 const xmlChar *base);
+xmlURIPtr	xmlParseURI		(const char *URI);
+int		xmlParseURIReference	(xmlURIPtr uri,
+					 const char *str);
+xmlChar *	xmlSaveUri		(xmlURIPtr uri);
+void		xmlPrintURI		(FILE *stream,
+					 xmlURIPtr uri);
+char *		xmlURIUnescapeString	(const char *str,
+					 int len,
+					 char *target);
+int		xmlNormalizeURIPath	(char *path);
+xmlChar *	xmlURIEscape		(const xmlChar *str);
+void		xmlFreeURI		(xmlURIPtr uri);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* __XML_URI_H__ */