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20<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
21<h2>Introduction</h2>
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57<p>This document describes libxml, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> C library developped for the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</a> project. <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML is a standard</a> for building tag-based
58structured documents/data.</p>
59<p>Here are some key points about libxml:</p>
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61<li>Libxml exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and
62 HTML.</li>
63<li>Libxml can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document
64 instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.</li>
65<li>Libxml now includes nearly complete <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> implementations.</li>
66<li>It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and
67 sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on
68 Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.</li>
69<li>Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing aplications to fetch
70 remote resources</li>
71<li>The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.</li>
72<li>The internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> interfaces.</li>
73<li>Libxml also has a <a href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX
74 like interface</a>; the interface is designed to be compatible with <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat</a>.</li>
75<li>This library is released both under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720.html">W3C
76 IPR</a> and the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU
77 LGPL</a>. Use either at your convenience, basically this should make
78 everybody happy, if not, drop me a mail.</li>
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80<p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a
81Gnome library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use
82libxml2</p>
83<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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