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Daniel Veillard598bec32003-07-06 10:02:03 +0000[diff] [blame]190 <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
Daniel Veillard23a52c52003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000[diff] [blame^]191(but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available
192under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT License</a>.
193XML itself is a metalanguage to
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +0000[diff] [blame]194design markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are
195added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot; information enclosed between angle
196brackets. HTML is the most well-known markup language. Though the library is
197written in C <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it
198available in other environments.</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]199 <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
Daniel Veillard710823b2003-03-04 10:05:52 +0000[diff] [blame]200without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
201CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]202 <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]203languages:</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]204 <ul><li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
205 <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
206 <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
207 <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
208 Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
209 <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
210 <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
Daniel Veillard23a52c52003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000[diff] [blame^]211 <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]212 <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
Daniel Veillard23a52c52003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000[diff] [blame^]213 <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]214 and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
Daniel Veillard23a52c52003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000[diff] [blame^]215 [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]216 <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]217 <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>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]218 <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]219 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>
220 <li>Relax NG Committee Specification 3 December 2001 <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>
Daniel Veillardf83a2c72003-04-08 13:48:40 +0000[diff] [blame]221 <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
Daniel Veillard23a52c52003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000[diff] [blame^]222 2001</a> except the base64Binary type</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]223</ul>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +0000[diff] [blame]224 <p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a
225relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all
2261800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
Daniel Veillarda5393562002-02-20 11:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]227Suite</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]228 <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]229specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <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>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]231 it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]232 libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]233 <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
Daniel Veillard8a469172003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000[diff] [blame]234 libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]235 <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]236 HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]237 <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]238 versions</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]239 <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]240 XML</li>
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Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]242 <p>A partial implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
Daniel Veillardf83a2c72003-04-08 13:48:40 +0000[diff] [blame]2431: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
244conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]245 <p>Separate documents:</p>
246 <ul><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]247 implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
248 libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]249 <li><a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]250 : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]251 <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]252 implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
253 Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]254 <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]255 projects.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]256</ul>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]257 <p>Results of the <a href="http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html">xmlbench
Daniel Veillard806cada2003-03-19 21:58:59 +0000[diff] [blame]258benchmark</a> on sourceforge 19 March 2003 (smaller is better):</p>
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