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| 21 | <h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1> |
| 22 | <h2>Introduction</h2> |
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Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 7b602b4 | 2002-01-08 13:26:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | <li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | <li><a href="python.html">Python and bindings</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | b8cfbd1 | 2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | <li><a href="architecture.html">libxml architecture</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | <li><a href="tree.html">The tree output</a></li> |
| 43 | <li><a href="interface.html">The SAX interface</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | b8cfbd1 | 2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | <li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation & DTDs</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 3bf65be | 2002-01-23 12:36:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | <tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr> |
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Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li> |
| 76 | <li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | <li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li> |
| 79 | <li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | db9dfd9 | 2001-11-26 17:25:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | <li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml">Bug Tracker</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | </ul></td></tr> |
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| 86 | <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 |
| 87 | structured documents/data.</p> |
| 88 | <p>Here are some key points about libxml:</p> |
| 89 | <ul> |
| 90 | <li>Libxml exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and |
| 91 | HTML.</li> |
| 92 | <li>Libxml can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document |
| 93 | instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.</li> |
| 94 | <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> |
| 95 | <li>It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and |
| 96 | sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on |
| 97 | Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.</li> |
| 98 | <li>Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing aplications to fetch |
| 99 | remote resources</li> |
| 100 | <li>The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.</li> |
| 101 | <li>The internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> interfaces.</li> |
| 102 | <li>Libxml also has a <a href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX |
| 103 | like interface</a>; the interface is designed to be compatible with <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat</a>.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | c575b99 | 2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | <li>This library is released under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT |
| 105 | Licence</a> see the Copyright file in the distribution for the precise |
| 106 | wording.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | </ul> |
| 108 | <p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a |
| 109 | Gnome library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use |
| 110 | libxml2</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 3f4c40f | 2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | <p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | </td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td> |
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