| .TH libxml 3 "12 April 2000" |
| .SH NAME |
| libxml \- library used to parse XML files |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .I libxml |
| library is used to parse XML files. |
| Its internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the |
| .I DOM |
| (Document Object Model) interface, |
| an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents. |
| .LP |
| The |
| .I libxml |
| library also has a |
| .IR SAX -like |
| interface, |
| which is designed to be compatible with |
| .IR expat (1). |
| NOTE: |
| .IR SAX , |
| the Simple API for XML, |
| is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing, |
| developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, |
| currently hosted by OASIS. |
| The |
| .I expat |
| library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C, |
| which aims to be fully conforming. |
| It is currently not a validating XML processor. |
| .LP |
| The |
| .I libxml |
| library now includes a nearly complete |
| .I XPath |
| implementation. |
| The |
| .I XPath |
| (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an |
| XML document, |
| designed to be used by both |
| .I XSLT |
| and |
| .IR XPointer . |
| .LP |
| The |
| .I libxml |
| library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and |
| .IR html . |
| .SH FILES |
| .TP 2.2i |
| .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a |
| static library |
| .TP |
| .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so |
| shared library |
| .TP |
| .B /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint |
| binary application for parsing XML files |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com). |
| Red Hat Inc. |
| Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), |
| Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, |
| U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .IR xmllint (1), |
| .IR libxslt (3), |
| .IR libexslt (3), |
| .IR xsltproc (1) |
| .\" end of manual page |