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21<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
22<h2>libxml</h2>
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Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]31<li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li>
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79<li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
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Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]87<p>Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. XML itself
88is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where
89semantic and structure are added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot;
90information enclosed between angle bracket. HTML is the most well-known
91markup language.</p>
92<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
93languages:</p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]94<ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]95<li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a>
96</li>
97<li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a>
98</li>
99<li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a>
100</li>
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102<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]103 : Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]104</li>
105<li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a>
106</li>
107<li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a>
108</li>
109<li>most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a>
110</li>
111<li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a>
112</li>
113<li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
114 and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
115 [UTF-16] core encodings</li>
116<li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
117<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>
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Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]120<p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively
Daniel Veillarda5393562002-02-20 11:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]121strict way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all 1800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
122Suite</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard5b16f582002-02-20 11:38:46 +0000[diff] [blame]123<p>To some extent libxml2 provide some support for the following other
124specification but don't claim to implement them:</p>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]125<ul>
126<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>
127 it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this in top of
128 libxml2</li>
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130<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]131 : libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]132<li>
133<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]134 : HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]135<li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
136 versions</li>
137<li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
138 XML</li>
139</ul>
Daniel Veillard845cce42002-01-09 11:51:37 +0000[diff] [blame]140<p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, should build and work without
141serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, CygWin,
142MacOs, MacOsX, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]143<p>Separate documents:</p>
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Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]145<li>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]146<a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a>
147 providing an implementation of XSLT 1.0 and extensions on top of
148 libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]149<li>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]150<a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
Daniel Veillard51095312001-10-28 18:51:57 +0000[diff] [blame]151 : a standard DOM2 implementation based on libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]152</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]153<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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