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Daniel Veillard	598bec3	2003-07-06 10:02:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	5	<title>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</title>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	6	<meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya 8.5, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	7	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	8	</head>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	9
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	10	<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
Daniel Veillard	598bec3	2003-07-06 10:02:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	11	<h1 align="center">The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	12
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	13	<h1>Note: this is the flat content of the <a href="index.html">web
				14	site</a></h1>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	15
Daniel Veillard	c948420	2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	16	<h1 style="text-align: center">libxml, a.k.a. gnome-xml</h1>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	17
				18	<p></p>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	19
Daniel Veillard	7ebac02	2004-02-25 22:36:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	20	<p
				21	style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt">"Programming
				22	with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." <a
				23	href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">Mark
				24	Pilgrim</a></p>
				25
Daniel Veillard	598bec3	2003-07-06 10:02:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	26	<p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
Daniel Veillard	23a52c5	2003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000	[diff] [blame]	27	(but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available
Daniel Veillard	eec1ae9	2003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	28	under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
				29	License</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.
				30	text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using
				31	extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most
				32	well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a
				33	href="python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in
				34	other environments.</p>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	35
Daniel Veillard	710823b	2003-03-04 10:05:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	36	<p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
				37	without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
				38	CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
				39
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	40	<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
				41	languages:</p>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	42	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	43	<li>the XML standard: <a
				44	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
				45	<li>Namespaces in XML: <a
				46	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
				47	<li>XML Base: <a
				48	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	49	<li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
				50	Uniform Resource Identifiers <a
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	51	href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
				52	<li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a
				53	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
				54	<li>HTML4 parser: <a
				55	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	23a52c5	2003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000	[diff] [blame]	56	<li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	57	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
				58	<li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a
				59	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	23a52c5	2003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000	[diff] [blame]	60	<li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	61	href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
				62	and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
Daniel Veillard	23a52c5	2003-08-18 10:01:18 +0000	[diff] [blame]	63	[UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	64	<li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
				65	<li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a
				66	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 Veillard	5c39654	2002-03-15 07:57:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	67	<li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a
				68	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	69	and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft <a
				70	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	758c531	2003-12-15 11:51:25 +0000	[diff] [blame]	71	<li>Relax NG, ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003, <a
Daniel Veillard	17bed98	2003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	72	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 Veillard	f83a2c7	2003-04-08 13:48:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	73	<li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a
				74	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
Daniel Veillard	7ecced5	2003-12-18 14:22:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	75	2001</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	eca726d	2004-04-18 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	76	<li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> Working Draft 7
				77	April 2004</li>
Daniel Veillard	9698445	2000-08-31 13:50:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	78	</ul>
				79
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	80	<p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a
Daniel Veillard	7c4eb63	2004-04-19 21:29:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	81	relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passed all
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	82	1800+ tests from the <a
Daniel Veillard	a539356	2002-02-20 11:40:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	83	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
				84	Suite</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	5b16f58	2002-02-20 11:38:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	85
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	86	<p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
				87	specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	88	<ul>
				89	<li>Document Object Model (DOM) <a
				90	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/</a>
Daniel Veillard	d4cfcef	2004-05-06 18:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	91	the document model, but it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does
				92	this on top of libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	93	<li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	94	libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	95	<li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
				96	HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard	7c4eb63	2004-04-19 21:29:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	97	<li>SAX: a SAX2 like interface and a minimal SAX1 implementation compatible
				98	with early expat versions</li>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	99	</ul>
				100
Daniel Veillard	f83a2c7	2003-04-08 13:48:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	101	<p>A partial implementation of <a
				102	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
				103	1: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
				104	conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
Daniel Veillard	e6d8e20	2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	105
Daniel Veillard	9698445	2000-08-31 13:50:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	106	<p>Separate documents:</p>
				107	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	108	<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	109	implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
				110	libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard	c6271d2	2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	111	<li><a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	112	: a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
				113	<li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
				114	implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
				115	Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard	e6d8e20	2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	116	<li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
				117	projects.</li>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	118	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	252004d	2004-03-23 12:32:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	119	<!----------------<p>Results of the <a
Daniel Veillard	806cada	2003-03-19 21:58:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	120	href="http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html">xmlbench
Daniel Veillard	31ae462	2004-02-16 07:45:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	121	benchmark</a> on sourceforge February 2004 (smaller is better):</p>
Daniel Veillard	d8da01c	2003-03-24 15:58:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	122
Daniel Veillard	31ae462	2004-02-16 07:45:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	123	<p align="center"><img src="benchmark.png"
Daniel Veillard	d8da01c	2003-03-24 15:58:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	124	alt="benchmark results for Expat Xerces libxml2 Oracle and Sun toolkits"></p>
Daniel Veillard	cf80b78	2004-03-07 19:32:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	125	-------------->
Daniel Veillard	806cada	2003-03-19 21:58:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	126
Daniel Veillard	e166254	2002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	127	<p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p>
				128
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	129	<h2><a name="Introducti">Introduction</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	130
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	131	<p>This document describes libxml, the <a
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	132	href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> C parser and toolkit developed for the
				133	<a href="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</a> project. <a
Daniel Veillard	ec78c0f	2000-08-25 10:25:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	134	href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML is a standard</a> for building tag-based
				135	structured documents/data.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	136
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	137	<p>Here are some key points about libxml:</p>
				138	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	139	<li>Libxml2 exports Push (progressive) and Pull (blocking) type parser
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	140	interfaces for both XML and HTML.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	141	<li>Libxml2 can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	142	instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	143	<li>Libxml2 includes complete <a
Daniel Veillard	8c2ecaf	2001-07-10 17:53:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	144	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>, <a
				145	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a
				146	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> implementations.</li>
Daniel Veillard	ec78c0f	2000-08-25 10:25:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	147	<li>It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and
Daniel Veillard	189446d	2000-10-13 10:23:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	148	sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	149	Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	150	<li>Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing applications to fetch
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	151	remote resources.</li>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	152	<li>The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	153	<li>The internal document representation is as close as possible to the <a
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	154	href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> interfaces.</li>
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	155	<li>Libxml2 also has a <a
				156	href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX like interface</a>;
				157	the interface is designed to be compatible with <a
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	158	href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	c575b99	2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	159	<li>This library is released under the <a
				160	href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	161	License</a>. See the Copyright file in the distribution for the precise
Daniel Veillard	c575b99	2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	162	wording.</li>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	163	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	164
Daniel Veillard	e0c1d72	2001-03-21 10:28:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	165	<p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	166	Gnome-1.X library requiring it, <strong><span
Daniel Veillard	e0c1d72	2001-03-21 10:28:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	167	style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use
				168	libxml2</p>
				169
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	170	<h2><a name="FAQ">FAQ</a></h2>
				171
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	172	<p>Table of Contents:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	173	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	174	<li><a href="FAQ.html#License">License(s)</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	175	<li><a href="FAQ.html#Installati">Installation</a></li>
				176	<li><a href="FAQ.html#Compilatio">Compilation</a></li>
				177	<li><a href="FAQ.html#Developer">Developer corner</a></li>
				178	</ul>
				179
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	180	<h3><a name="License">License</a>(s)</h3>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	181	<ol>
				182	<li><em>Licensing Terms for libxml</em>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	183	<p>libxml2 is released under the <a
Daniel Veillard	c575b99	2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	184	href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	185	License</a>; see the file Copyright in the distribution for the precise
Daniel Veillard	c575b99	2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	186	wording</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	187	</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	188	<li><em>Can I embed libxml2 in a proprietary application ?</em>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	189	<p>Yes. The MIT License allows you to keep proprietary the changes you
				190	made to libxml, but it would be graceful to send-back bug fixes and
				191	improvements as patches for possible incorporation in the main
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	192	development tree.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	193	</li>
				194	</ol>
				195
				196	<h3><a name="Installati">Installation</a></h3>
				197	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	198	<li><strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use
				199	libxml1</span></strong>, use libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	200	<li><em>Where can I get libxml</em> ?
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	201	<p>The original distribution comes from <a
				202	href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">rpmfind.net</a> or <a
Daniel Veillard	024f199	2003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	203	href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml2/2.6/">gnome.org</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	204	<p>Most Linux and BSD distributions include libxml, this is probably the
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	205	safer way for end-users to use libxml.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	206	<p>David Doolin provides precompiled Windows versions at <a
				207	href="http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/ ">http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/</a></p>
				208	</li>
				209	<li><em>I see libxml and libxml2 releases, which one should I install ?</em>
				210	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	211	<li>If you are not constrained by backward compatibility issues with
				212	existing applications, install libxml2 only</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	213	<li>If you are not doing development, you can safely install both.
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	214	Usually the packages <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	215	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml.html">libxml</a> and <a
				216	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml2</a> are
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	217	compatible (this is not the case for development packages).</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	218	<li>If you are a developer and your system provides separate packaging
				219	for shared libraries and the development components, it is possible
				220	to install libxml and libxml2, and also <a
				221	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml-devel.html">libxml-devel</a>
				222	and <a
				223	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2-devel.html">libxml2-devel</a>
				224	too for libxml2 >= 2.3.0</li>
				225	<li>If you are developing a new application, please develop against
				226	libxml2(-devel)</li>
				227	</ul>
				228	</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	229	<li><em>I can't install the libxml package, it conflicts with libxml0</em>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	230	<p>You probably have an old libxml0 package used to provide the shared
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	231	library for libxml.so.0, you can probably safely remove it. The libxml
				232	packages provided on <a
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	233	href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">rpmfind.net</a> provide
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	234	libxml.so.0</p>
				235	</li>
				236	<li><em>I can't install the libxml(2) RPM package due to failed
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	237	dependencies</em>
				238	<p>The most generic solution is to re-fetch the latest src.rpm , and
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	239	rebuild it locally with</p>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	240	<p><code>rpm --rebuild libxml(2)-xxx.src.rpm</code>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	241	<p>If everything goes well it will generate two binary rpm packages (one
				242	providing the shared libs and xmllint, and the other one, the -devel
				243	package, providing includes, static libraries and scripts needed to build
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	244	applications with libxml(2)) that you can install locally.</p>
				245	</li>
				246	</ol>
				247
				248	<h3><a name="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h3>
				249	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	250	<li><em>What is the process to compile libxml2 ?</em>
				251	<p>As most UNIX libraries libxml2 follows the "standard":</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	252	<p><code>gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz \| tar xvf -</code></p>
				253	<p><code>cd libxml-xxxx</code></p>
				254	<p><code>./configure --help</code></p>
				255	<p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p>
				256	<p><code>./configure [possible options]</code></p>
				257	<p><code>make</code></p>
				258	<p><code>make install</code></p>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	259	<p>At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	260	update your list of installed shared libs.</p>
				261	</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	262	<li><em>What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml2 ?</em>
				263	<p>Libxml2 does not require any other library, the normal C ANSI API
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	264	should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you may
				265	find).</p>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	266	<p>However if found at configuration time libxml2 will detect and use the
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	267	following libs:</p>
				268	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	269	<li><a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">libz</a> : a
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	270	highly portable and available widely compression library.</li>
				271	<li>iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It is
				272	included by default in recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't need to
				273	be installed specifically on Linux. It now seems a <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	274	href="http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html">part
				275	of the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a
Daniel Veillard	dad3f68	2002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	276	href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/">implementation of the
				277	library</a> which source can be found <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	278	href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>.</li>
				279	</ul>
				280	</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	281	<li><em>Make check fails on some platforms</em>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	282	<p>Sometimes the regression tests' results don't completely match the
				283	value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print the
				284	delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation process;
				285	if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem.</p>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	286	<p>Sometimes (especially on Solaris) make checks fail due to limitations
Daniel Veillard	e46182c	2002-02-12 14:29:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	287	in make. Try using GNU-make instead.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	288	</li>
				289	<li><em>I use the CVS version and there is no configure script</em>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	290	<p>The configure script (and other Makefiles) are generated. Use the
				291	autogen.sh script to regenerate the configure script and Makefiles,
				292	like:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	293	<p><code>./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-shared</code></p>
				294	</li>
				295	<li><em>I have troubles when running make tests with gcc-3.0</em>
				296	<p>It seems the initial release of gcc-3.0 has a problem with the
				297	optimizer which miscompiles the URI module. Please use another
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	298	compiler.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	299	</li>
				300	</ol>
				301
				302	<h3><a name="Developer">Developer</a> corner</h3>
				303	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	93d9525	2003-04-29 20:25:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	304	<li><em>Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxml2</em>
				305	<p>Usually the problem comes from the fact that the compiler doesn't get
				306	the right compilation or linking flags. There is a small shell script
				307	<code>xml2-config</code> which is installed as part of libxml2 usual
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	308	install process which provides those flags. Use</p>
Daniel Veillard	93d9525	2003-04-29 20:25:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	309	<p><code>xml2-config --cflags</code></p>
				310	<p>to get the compilation flags and</p>
				311	<p><code>xml2-config --libs</code></p>
				312	<p>to get the linker flags. Usually this is done directly from the
				313	Makefile as:</p>
				314	<p><code>CFLAGS=`xml2-config --cflags`</code></p>
				315	<p><code>LIBS=`xml2-config --libs`</code></p>
				316	</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	317	<li><em>I want to install my own copy of libxml2 in my home directory and
				318	link my programs against it, but it doesn't work</em>
William M. Brack	99906ad	2005-01-09 17:02:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	319	<p>There are many different ways to accomplish this. Here is one way to
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	320	do this under Linux. Suppose your home directory is <code>/home/user.
				321	</code>Then:</p>
				322	<ul>
				323	<li>Create a subdirectory, let's call it <code>myxml</code></li>
William M. Brack	99906ad	2005-01-09 17:02:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	324	<li>unpack the libxml2 distribution into that subdirectory</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	325	<li>chdir into the unpacked distribution
				326	(<code>/home/user/myxml/libxml2 </code>)</li>
William M. Brack	99906ad	2005-01-09 17:02:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	327	<li>configure the library using the "<code>--prefix</code>" switch,
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	328	specifying an installation subdirectory in
				329	<code>/home/user/myxml</code>, e.g.
				330	<p><code>./configure --prefix /home/user/myxml/xmlinst</code> {other
				331	configuration options}</p>
				332	</li>
William M. Brack	99906ad	2005-01-09 17:02:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	333	<li>now run <code>make</code> followed by <code>make install</code></li>
				334	<li>At this point, the installation subdirectory contains the complete
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	335	"private" include files, library files and binary program files (e.g.
				336	xmllint), located in
				337	<p><code>/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/lib,
				338	/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/include </code> and <code>
				339	/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin</code></p>
				340	respectively.</li>
				341	<li>In order to use this "private" library, you should first add it to
				342	the beginning of your default PATH (so that your own private program
				343	files such as xmllint will be used instead of the normal system
				344	ones). To do this, the Bash command would be
				345	<p><code>export PATH=/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin:$PATH</code></p>
				346	</li>
William M. Brack	99906ad	2005-01-09 17:02:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	347	<li>Now suppose you have a program <code>test1.c</code> that you would
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	348	like to compile with your "private" library. Simply compile it using
				349	the command
				350	<p><code>gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` -o test test.c</code></p>
				351	Note that, because your PATH has been set with <code>
				352	/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin</code> at the beginning, the xml2-config
				353	program which you just installed will be used instead of the system
				354	default one, and this will <em>automatically</em> get the correct
				355	libraries linked with your program.</li>
				356	</ul>
				357	</li>
				358
				359	<p></p>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	360	<li><em>xmlDocDump() generates output on one line.</em>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	361	<p>Libxml2 will not <strong>invent</strong> spaces in the content of a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	362	document since <strong>all spaces in the content of a document are
				363	significant</strong>. If you build a tree from the API and want
				364	indentation:</p>
				365	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	366	<li>the correct way is to generate those yourself too.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	367	<li>the dangerous way is to ask libxml2 to add those blanks to your
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	368	content <strong>modifying the content of your document in the
				369	process</strong>. The result may not be what you expect. There is
				370	<strong>NO</strong> way to guarantee that such a modification won't
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	371	affect other parts of the content of your document. See <a
Daniel Veillard	5373ea1	2003-07-24 13:09:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	372	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlKeepBlanksDefault">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	373	()</a> and <a
Daniel Veillard	5373ea1	2003-07-24 13:09:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	374	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlSaveFormatFile">xmlSaveFormatFile
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	375	()</a></li>
				376	</ol>
				377	</li>
				378	<li>Extra nodes in the document:
				379	<p><em>For a XML file as below:</em></p>
				380	<pre><?xml version="1.0"?>
				381	<PLAN xmlns="http://www.argus.ca/autotest/1.0/">
				382	<NODE CommFlag="0"/>
				383	<NODE CommFlag="1"/>
				384	</PLAN></pre>
				385	<p><em>after parsing it with the function
				386	pxmlDoc=xmlParseFile(...);</em></p>
				387	<p><em>I want to the get the content of the first node (node with the
				388	CommFlag="0")</em></p>
				389	<p><em>so I did it as following;</em></p>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	390	<pre>xmlNodePtr pnode;
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	391	pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children;</pre>
				392	<p><em>but it does not work. If I change it to</em></p>
				393	<pre>pnode=pxmlDoc->children->children->next;</pre>
				394	<p><em>then it works. Can someone explain it to me.</em></p>
				395	<p></p>
				396	<p>In XML all characters in the content of the document are significant
				397	<strong>including blanks and formatting line breaks</strong>.</p>
				398	<p>The extra nodes you are wondering about are just that, text nodes with
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	399	the formatting spaces which are part of the document but that people tend
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	400	to forget. There is a function <a
				401	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
				402	()</a> to remove those at parse time, but that's an heuristic, and its
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	403	use should be limited to cases where you are certain there is no
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	404	mixed-content in the document.</p>
				405	</li>
				406	<li><em>I get compilation errors of existing code like when accessing
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	407	<strong>root</strong> or <strong>child fields</strong> of nodes.</em>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	408	<p>You are compiling code developed for libxml version 1 and using a
				409	libxml2 development environment. Either switch back to libxml v1 devel or
				410	even better fix the code to compile with libxml2 (or both) by <a
				411	href="upgrade.html">following the instructions</a>.</p>
				412	</li>
				413	<li><em>I get compilation errors about non existing
				414	<strong>xmlRootNode</strong> or <strong>xmlChildrenNode</strong>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	415	fields.</em>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	416	<p>The source code you are using has been <a
				417	href="upgrade.html">upgraded</a> to be able to compile with both libxml
				418	and libxml2, but you need to install a more recent version:
				419	libxml(-devel) >= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) >= 2.1.0</p>
				420	</li>
				421	<li><em>XPath implementation looks seriously broken</em>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	422	<p>XPath implementation prior to 2.3.0 was really incomplete. Upgrade to
				423	a recent version, there are no known bugs in the current version.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	424	</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	425	<li><em>The example provided in the web page does not compile.</em>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	426	<p>It's hard to maintain the documentation in sync with the code
				427	<grin/> ...</p>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	428	<p>Check the previous points 1/ and 2/ raised before, and please send
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	429	patches.</p>
				430	</li>
Daniel Veillard	8d7b5c7	2003-11-15 18:24:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	431	<li><em>Where can I get more examples and information than provided on the
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	432	web page?</em>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	433	<p>Ideally a libxml2 book would be nice. I have no such plan ... But you
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	434	can:</p>
				435	<ul>
				436	<li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing
				437	generated doc</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	438	<li>have a look at <a href="examples/index.html">the set of
				439	examples</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	440	<li>look for examples of use for libxml2 function using the Gnome code.
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	441	For example the following will query the full Gnome CVS base for the
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	442	use of the <strong>xmlAddChild()</strong> function:
				443	<p><a
				444	href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/search?string=xmlAddChild">http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/search?string=xmlAddChild</a></p>
				445	<p>This may be slow, a large hardware donation to the gnome project
				446	could cure this :-)</p>
				447	</li>
				448	<li><a
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	449	href="http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=gnome-xml">Browse
				450	the libxml2 source</a> , I try to write code as clean and documented
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	451	as possible, so looking at it may be helpful. In particular the code
				452	of xmllint.c and of the various testXXX.c test programs should
				453	provide good examples of how to do things with the library.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	454	</ul>
				455	</li>
				456	<li>What about C++ ?
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	457	<p>libxml2 is written in pure C in order to allow easy reuse on a number
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	458	of platforms, including embedded systems. I don't intend to convert to
				459	C++.</p>
Daniel Veillard	91e69c5	2003-08-04 01:43:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	460	<p>There is however a C++ wrapper which may fulfill your needs:</p>
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	461	<ul>
				462	<li>by Ari Johnson <ari@btigate.com>:
				463	<p>Website: <a
Daniel Veillard	91e69c5	2003-08-04 01:43:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	464	href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	465	<p>Download: <a
Daniel Veillard	91e69c5	2003-08-04 01:43:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	466	href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	467	</li>
Daniel Veillard	83ee40d	2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	468	<!-- Website is currently unavailable as of 2003-08-02
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	469	<li>by Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.org>
Daniel Veillard	83ee40d	2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	470	<p>Website: <a
				471	href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	472	</li>
Daniel Veillard	83ee40d	2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	473	-->
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	474	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	475	</li>
				476	<li>How to validate a document a posteriori ?
				477	<p>It is possible to validate documents which had not been validated at
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	478	initial parsing time or documents which have been built from scratch
				479	using the API. Use the <a
Daniel Veillard	5373ea1	2003-07-24 13:09:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	480	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidateDtd">xmlValidateDtd()</a>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	481	function. It is also possible to simply add a DTD to an existing
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	482	document:</p>
				483	<pre>xmlDocPtr doc; /* your existing document */
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	484	xmlDtdPtr dtd = xmlParseDTD(NULL, filename_of_dtd); /* parse the DTD */
				485
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	486	dtd->name = xmlStrDup((xmlChar)"root_name"); / use the given root */
				487
				488	doc->intSubset = dtd;
				489	if (doc->children == NULL) xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)doc, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
				490	else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc->children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
				491	</pre>
				492	</li>
Daniel Veillard	dad3f68	2002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	493	<li>So what is this funky "xmlChar" used all the time?
				494	<p>It is a null terminated sequence of utf-8 characters. And only utf-8!
				495	You need to convert strings encoded in different ways to utf-8 before
				496	passing them to the API. This can be accomplished with the iconv library
				497	for instance.</p>
John Fleck	61f6fb6	2002-10-31 15:23:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	498	</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	499	<li>etc ...</li>
				500	</ol>
				501
				502	<p></p>
				503
Daniel Veillard	66f68e7	2003-08-18 16:39:51 +0000	[diff] [blame]	504	<h2><a name="Documentat">Developer Menu</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	505
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	506	<p>There are several on-line resources related to using libxml:</p>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	507	<ol>
MST 2003 John Fleck	2b7142a	2003-11-22 03:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	508	<li>Use the <a href="search.php">search engine</a> to look up
				509	information.</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	510	<li>Check the <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ.</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	c19fccc	2000-07-03 11:52:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	511	<li>Check the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-lib.html">extensive
MST 2003 John Fleck	2b7142a	2003-11-22 03:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	512	documentation</a> automatically extracted from code comments.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8d86964	2000-07-14 12:12:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	513	<li>Look at the documentation about <a href="encoding.html">libxml
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	514	internationalization support</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	bc66f85	2002-01-14 09:49:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	515	<li>This page provides a global overview and <a href="example.html">some
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	516	examples</a> on how to use libxml.</li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	517	<li><a href="examples/index.html">Code examples</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	518	<li>John Fleck's libxml2 tutorial: <a href="tutorial/index.html">html</a>
				519	or <a href="tutorial/xmltutorial.pdf">pdf</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	1177ca4	2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	520	<li>If you need to parse large files, check the <a
				521	href="xmlreader.html">xmlReader</a> API tutorial</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	522	<li><a href="mailto:james@daa.com.au">James Henstridge</a> wrote <a
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	523	href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/xml-sax/xml-sax.html">some nice
				524	documentation</a> explaining how to use the libxml SAX interface.</li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	525	<li>George Lebl wrote <a
MST 2003 John Fleck	2b7142a	2003-11-22 03:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	526	href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gnome3/">an article
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	527	for IBM developerWorks</a> about using libxml.</li>
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	528	<li>Check <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/TODO">the TODO
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	529	file</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	530	<li>Read the <a href="upgrade.html">1.x to 2.x upgrade path</a>
				531	description. If you are starting a new project using libxml you should
				532	really use the 2.x version.</li>
Daniel Veillard	845cce4	2002-01-09 11:51:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	533	<li>And don't forget to look at the <a
				534	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">mailing-list archive</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	535	</ol>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	536
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	537	<h2><a name="Reporting">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	4c3a203	1999-11-19 17:46:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	538
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	539	<p>Well, bugs or missing features are always possible, and I will make a
				540	point of fixing them in a timely fashion. The best way to report a bug is to
Daniel Veillard	ccf996f	2003-08-14 10:48:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	541	use the <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Gnome
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	542	bug tracking database</a> (make sure to use the "libxml2" module name). I
				543	look at reports there regularly and it's good to have a reminder when a bug
				544	is still open. Be sure to specify that the bug is for the package libxml2.</p>
Daniel Veillard	4c3a203	1999-11-19 17:46:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	545
Daniel Veillard	4ac494b	2003-09-18 15:08:00 +0000	[diff] [blame]	546	<p>For small problems you can try to get help on IRC, the #xml channel on
				547	irc.gnome.org (port 6667) usually have a few person subscribed which may help
				548	(but there is no garantee and if a real issue is raised it should go on the
				549	mailing-list for archival).</p>
Daniel Veillard	9582d6c	2003-09-16 11:40:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	550
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	551	<p>There is also a mailing-list <a
Daniel Veillard	3197f16	2001-04-04 00:40:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	552	href="mailto:xml@gnome.org">xml@gnome.org</a> for libxml, with an <a
				553	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">on-line archive</a> (<a
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	554	href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages">old</a>). To subscribe to this list,
				555	please visit the <a
				556	href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml">associated Web</a> page and
				557	follow the instructions. <strong>Do not send code, I won't debug it</strong>
				558	(but patches are really appreciated!).</p>
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	559
				560	<p>Please note that with the current amount of virus and SPAM, sending mail
				561	to the list without being subscribed won't work. There is *far too many
				562	bounces* (in the order of a thousand a day !) I cannot approve them manually
				563	anymore. If your mail to the list bounced waiting for administrator approval,
				564	it is LOST ! Repost it and fix the problem triggering the error.</p>
Daniel Veillard	234547b	2001-07-05 09:46:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	565
Daniel Veillard	008186f	2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	566	<p>Check the following <strong><span style="color: #FF0000">before
				567	posting</span></strong>:</p>
Daniel Veillard	234547b	2001-07-05 09:46:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	568	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	321be0c	2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	569	<li>Read the <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a> and <a href="search.php">use the
Daniel Veillard	a37aab8	2003-06-09 09:10:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	570	search engine</a> to get information related to your problem.</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	571	<li>Make sure you are <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">using a recent
				572	version</a>, and that the problem still shows up in a recent version.</li>
				573	<li>Check the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">list
				574	archives</a> to see if the problem was reported already. In this case
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	575	there is probably a fix available, similarly check the <a
Daniel Veillard	ccf996f	2003-08-14 10:48:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	576	href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">registered
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	577	open bugs</a>.</li>
				578	<li>Make sure you can reproduce the bug with xmllint or one of the test
				579	programs found in source in the distribution.</li>
Daniel Veillard	234547b	2001-07-05 09:46:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	580	<li>Please send the command showing the error as well as the input (as an
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	581	attachment)</li>
Daniel Veillard	234547b	2001-07-05 09:46:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	582	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	583
Daniel Veillard	a37aab8	2003-06-09 09:10:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	584	<p>Then send the bug with associated information to reproduce it to the <a
Daniel Veillard	33a6780	2001-03-07 09:44:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	585	href="mailto:xml@gnome.org">xml@gnome.org</a> list; if it's really libxml
Daniel Veillard	98d071d	2003-01-10 09:22:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	586	related I will approve it. Please do not send mail to me directly, it makes
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	587	things really hard to track and in some cases I am not the best person to
Daniel Veillard	98d071d	2003-01-10 09:22:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	588	answer a given question, ask on the list.</p>
				589
				590	<p>To <span style="color: #E50000">be really clear about support</span>:</p>
				591	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	a37aab8	2003-06-09 09:10:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	592	<li>Support or help <span style="color: #E50000">requests MUST be sent to
Daniel Veillard	98d071d	2003-01-10 09:22:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	593	the list or on bugzilla</span> in case of problems, so that the Question
				594	and Answers can be shared publicly. Failing to do so carries the implicit
				595	message "I want free support but I don't want to share the benefits with
Daniel Veillard	831e8fd	2003-01-25 11:45:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	596	others" and is not welcome. I will automatically Carbon-Copy the
				597	xml@gnome.org mailing list for any technical reply made about libxml2 or
				598	libxslt.</li>
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	599	<li>There is <span style="color: #E50000">no garantee of support</span>, if
				600	your question remains unanswered after a week, repost it, making sure you
				601	gave all the detail needed and the information requested.</li>
Daniel Veillard	a37aab8	2003-06-09 09:10:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	602	<li>Failing to provide information as requested or double checking first
Daniel Veillard	98d071d	2003-01-10 09:22:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	603	for prior feedback also carries the implicit message "the time of the
				604	library maintainers is less valuable than my time" and might not be
				605	welcome.</li>
				606	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	4c3a203	1999-11-19 17:46:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	607
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	608	<p>Of course, bugs reported with a suggested patch for fixing them will
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	609	probably be processed faster than those without.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	610
				611	<p>If you're looking for help, a quick look at <a
Daniel Veillard	f7ed336	2001-08-17 12:01:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	612	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">the list archive</a> may actually
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	613	provide the answer. I usually send source samples when answering libxml2
				614	usage questions. The <a
				615	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/book1.html">auto-generated documentation</a> is
				616	not as polished as I would like (i need to learn more about DocBook), but
				617	it's a good starting point.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	618
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	619	<h2><a name="help">How to help</a></h2>
				620
				621	<p>You can help the project in various ways, the best thing to do first is to
				622	subscribe to the mailing-list as explained before, check the <a
Daniel Veillard	f7ed336	2001-08-17 12:01:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	623	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">archives </a>and the <a
Daniel Veillard	ccf996f	2003-08-14 10:48:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	624	href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Gnome bug
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	625	database</a>:</p>
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	626	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	627	<li>Provide patches when you find problems.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	628	<li>Provide the diffs when you port libxml2 to a new platform. They may not
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	629	be integrated in all cases but help pinpointing portability problems
				630	and</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	631	<li>Provide documentation fixes (either as patches to the code comments or
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	632	as HTML diffs).</li>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	633	<li>Provide new documentations pieces (translations, examples, etc
				634	...).</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	635	<li>Check the TODO file and try to close one of the items.</li>
				636	<li>Take one of the points raised in the archive or the bug database and
Daniel Veillard	e7ead2d	2001-08-22 23:44:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	637	provide a fix. <a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Get in touch with me
				638	</a>before to avoid synchronization problems and check that the suggested
				639	fix will fit in nicely :-)</li>
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	640	</ol>
				641
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	642	<h2><a name="Downloads">Downloads</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	643
Daniel Veillard	688f669	2004-03-26 10:57:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	644	<p>The latest versions of libxml2 can be found on the <a
Daniel Veillard	eca726d	2004-04-18 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	645	href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org</a> server ( <a
				646	href="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/">HTTP</a>, <a
				647	href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a> and rsync are available), there is also
Daniel Veillard	210818b	2004-09-29 15:50:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	648	mirrors (<a href="ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/xmlsoft/">Australia</a>( <a
				649	href="http://xmlsoft.planetmirror.com/">Web</a>), <a
Daniel Veillard	20c8cf2	2001-06-26 22:47:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	650	href="ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">France</a>) or on the <a
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	651	href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS.html">Gnome FTP server</a> as <a
				652	href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml2/2.6/">source archive</a>
Daniel Veillard	688f669	2004-03-26 10:57:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	653	, Antonin Sprinzl also provide <a href="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/libxml/">a
Daniel Veillard	e16b574	2002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	654	mirror in Austria</a>. (NOTE that you need both the <a
Daniel Veillard	c19fccc	2000-07-03 11:52:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	655	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml(2)</a> and <a
				656	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2-devel.html">libxml(2)-devel</a>
Daniel Veillard	b46a573	2003-04-08 13:35:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	657	packages installed to compile applications using libxml.)</p>
Daniel Veillard	eca726d	2004-04-18 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	658
				659	<p>You can find all the history of libxml(2) and libxslt releases in the <a
Daniel Veillard	d4cfcef	2004-05-06 18:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	660	href="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/old/">old</a> directory. The precompiled
Daniel Veillard	f81a8e8	2004-08-03 21:58:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	661	Windows binaries made by Igor Zlatovic are available in the <a
				662	href="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/">win32</a> directory.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b46a573	2003-04-08 13:35:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	663
				664	<p>Binary ports:</p>
				665	<ul>
				666	<li>Red Hat RPMs for i386 are available directly on <a
				667	href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org</a>, the source RPM will compile on
				668	any architecture supported by Red Hat.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b331fff	2004-08-22 14:21:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	669	<li><a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
				670	maintainer of the Windows port, <a
Daniel Veillard	b46a573	2003-04-08 13:35:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	671	href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
Daniel Veillard	b11f5b9	2004-08-03 22:09:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	672	binaries</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	673	<li>Blastwave provides <a
				674	href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libxml2">Solaris
				675	binaries</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	d49370e	2005-04-11 23:28:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	676	<li><a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@explain.com.au">Steve Ball</a> provides <a
				677	href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">Mac Os X
Daniel Veillard	b46a573	2003-04-08 13:35:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	678	binaries</a>.</li>
				679	<li>The HP-UX porting center provides <a
				680	href="http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnome/">HP-UX binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	681	<li>Bull provides precompiled <a
				682	href="http://gnome.bullfreeware.com/new_index.html">RPMs for AIX</a> as
				683	patr of their GNOME packages</li>
Daniel Veillard	b46a573	2003-04-08 13:35:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	684	</ul>
				685
				686	<p>If you know other supported binary ports, please <a
				687	href="http://veillard.com/">contact me</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	688
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	689	<p><a name="Snapshot">Snapshot:</a></p>
				690	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	3cef119	2004-08-18 09:30:31 +0000	[diff] [blame]	691	<li>Code from the W3C cvs base libxml2 module, updated hourly <a
Daniel Veillard	fc263f1	2004-08-31 07:02:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	692	href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2-cvs-snapshot.tar.gz">libxml2-cvs-snapshot.tar.gz</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	693	<li>Docs, content of the web site, the list archive included <a
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	694	href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml-docs.tar.gz">libxml-docs.tar.gz</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	695	</ul>
				696
Daniel Veillard	c6271d2	2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	697	<p><a name="Contribs">Contributions:</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	698
				699	<p>I do accept external contributions, especially if compiling on another
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	700	platform, get in touch with the list to upload the package, wrappers for
				701	various languages have been provided, and can be found in the <a
				702	href="python.html">bindings section</a></p>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	703
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	704	<p>Libxml2 is also available from CVS:</p>
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	705	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	b331fff	2004-08-22 14:21:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	706	<li><p>The <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/">Gnome CVS
				707	base</a>. Check the <a
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	708	href="http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html">Gnome CVS Tools</a>
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	709	page; the CVS module is <b>libxml2</b>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	710	</li>
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	711	<li>The <strong>libxslt</strong> module is also present there</li>
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	712	</ul>
				713
Daniel Veillard	78fed53	2004-10-09 19:44:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	714	<h2><a name="News">Releases</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	715
Daniel Veillard	e6d8e20	2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	716	<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
Daniel Veillard	688f669	2004-03-26 10:57:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	717	to help those</p>
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	718	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	72fef16	2003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	719	<li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
Daniel Veillard	cf27f7c	2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	720	<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Daniel Veillard	72fef16	2003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	721	Schemas</a></li>
				722	</ul>
				723
Daniel Veillard	2d90803	2004-08-10 10:16:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	724	<p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits
				725	to the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/">CVS</a> code base.</p>
				726
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	727	<p>There is the list of public releases:</p>
				728
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	729	<h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3>
				730	<ul>
				731	<li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
				732	(Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
				733	--with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
				734	on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
				735	Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
				736	MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick Jones),
				737	</li>
				738	<li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
				739	(Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
				740	parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
				741	<li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
				742	combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
				743	xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
				744	Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
				745	XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
				746	xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
				747	xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
				748	vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
				749	split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
				750	xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
				751	HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
				752	exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
				753	totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
				754	xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
				755	Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
				756	XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
				757	fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
				758	(Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
				759	runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
				760	(Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
				761	compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
				762	xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
				763	pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
				764	<li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
				765	Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
				766	transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
				767	standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
				768	(Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
				769	(Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
				770	htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards), </li>
				771	<li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
				772	function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
				773	</li>
				774	</ul>
				775
Daniel Veillard	33b20b7	2005-09-12 21:43:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	776	<h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3>
				777	<ul>
				778	<li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
				779	<li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	780	CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
				781	XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
				782	output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
				783	XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
				784	(Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
				785	<li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
				786	XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
				787	derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
Daniel Veillard	33b20b7	2005-09-12 21:43:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	788	<li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	789	devhelp.</li>
Daniel Veillard	33b20b7	2005-09-12 21:43:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	790	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	791
Daniel Veillard	b3d1491	2005-09-04 20:47:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	792	<h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3>
				793	<ul>
				794	<li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	795	convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
				796	sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
				797	on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
				798	Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
				799	compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
				800	Z/OS,</li>
Daniel Veillard	b3d1491	2005-09-04 20:47:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	801	<li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	802	bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
				803	htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
				804	Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
				805	xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
				806	foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
				807	Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
				808	namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
				809	(Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
				810	xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
				811	messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
				812	fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
				813	Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
				814	serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
				815	XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
				816	Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
				817	type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
				818	xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
				819	error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
				820	xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
				821	bugs.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b3d1491	2005-09-04 20:47:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	822	<li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	823	(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
				824	(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
				825	not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
				826	error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
				827	yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
				828	for text nodes allocation.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b3d1491	2005-09-04 20:47:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	829	<li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
				830	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	831
Daniel Veillard	78dfc9f	2005-07-10 22:30:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	832	<h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3>
				833	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	834	<li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
				835	Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
				836	andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
				837	pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
				838	of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
				839	compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
				840	distribution.</li>
				841	<li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
				842	HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
				843	overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
				844	(Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
				845	(Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
				846	on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
				847	exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
				848	Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
				849	QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
				850	(Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
				851	Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
				852	Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
				853	areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
				854	(William).</li>
				855	<li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
				856	conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
				857	Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
				858	Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
				859	(Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
				860	xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
				861	standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
				862	xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
				863	xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
				864	Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
				865	ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
				866	standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
				867	xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
				868	Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
Daniel Veillard	78dfc9f	2005-07-10 22:30:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	869	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	870
Daniel Veillard	771971f	2005-04-02 10:49:51 +0000	[diff] [blame]	871	<h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3>
				872	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	873	<li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
				874	Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
				875	5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
				876	Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
				877	<li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
				878	code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
				879	Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
				880	segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
				881	(Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
				882	HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
				883	leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
				884	encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
				885	gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
				886	switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
				887	serialization time</li>
				888	<li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
				889	checking and also mixed handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard	771971f	2005-04-02 10:49:51 +0000	[diff] [blame]	890	<li></li>
				891	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	892
Daniel Veillard	57c000e	2005-03-13 18:34:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	893	<h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3>
				894	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	895	<li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
				896	Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
				897	some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
				898	<li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
				899	xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
				900	reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
				901	saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
				902	fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
				903	(Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
				904	xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
				905	FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
				906	xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
				907	empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
				908	(Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
				909	Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
				910	(Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
				911	xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
				912	<li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
				913	hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
				914	subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
				915	values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
				916	Stansvik),</li>
				917	<li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
Daniel Veillard	57c000e	2005-03-13 18:34:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	918	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	919
Daniel Veillard	298d964	2005-01-16 20:01:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	920	<h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3>
				921	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	922	<li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
				923	maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
				924	(William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
				925	(Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
				926	McNichol)</li>
Daniel Veillard	298d964	2005-01-16 20:01:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	927	<li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	928	to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
				929	ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
				930	warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
				931	UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
				932	push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
				933	Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
				934	patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
				935	sometimes missing.</li>
				936	<li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
				937	(William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
				938	(William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
				939	serialize().</li>
				940	<li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
				941	the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
				942	Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
				943	(Phil Shafer)</li>
				944	<li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
				945	(William).</li>
Daniel Veillard	298d964	2005-01-16 20:01:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	946	</ul>
				947
Daniel Veillard	c3d7cb4	2004-11-10 14:34:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	948	<h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3>
				949	<ul>
				950	<li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
				951	automated regression testing</li>
				952	<li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
				953	<li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding
				954	conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
				955	Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
				956	<li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
				957	were updated.</li>
				958	<li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	959	Hendricks)</li>
Daniel Veillard	c3d7cb4	2004-11-10 14:34:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	960	</ul>
				961
Daniel Veillard	c2f83d1	2004-10-27 22:59:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	962	<h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3>
Daniel Veillard	6927b10	2004-10-27 17:29:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	963	<ul>
				964	<li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
				965	<li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
				966	source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
				967	<li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
				968	paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
				969	saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
				970	(Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
				971	fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
				972	on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
				973	by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
				974	entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
				975	(William).</li>
				976	<li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
				977	module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
				978	Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
				979	</ul>
				980
Daniel Veillard	210818b	2004-09-29 15:50:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	981	<h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3>
				982	<ul>
				983	<li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
				984	without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
Daniel Veillard	6927b10	2004-10-27 17:29:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	985	Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
Daniel Veillard	210818b	2004-09-29 15:50:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	986	<li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
				987	Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
				988	transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
				989	(Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
				990	handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
				991	date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
Daniel Veillard	6927b10	2004-10-27 17:29:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	992	E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
Daniel Veillard	210818b	2004-09-29 15:50:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	993	<li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
				994	xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
				995	(Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
				996	Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
				997	xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
				998	</ul>
				999
Daniel Veillard	d1de4a3	2004-08-31 13:43:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1000	<h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3>
				1001	<ul>
				1002	<li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
Daniel Veillard	210818b	2004-09-29 15:50:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1003	Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
Daniel Veillard	d1de4a3	2004-08-31 13:43:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1004	<li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
				1005	(Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
				1006	and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
				1007	problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
				1008	genrate a serialization loop.</li>
				1009	<li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
				1010	and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
				1011	<li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
				1012	</ul>
				1013
Daniel Veillard	b331fff	2004-08-22 14:21:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1014	<h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3>
				1015	<ul>
				1016	<li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
				1017	Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
				1018	Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
				1019	<li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
				1020	(William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
				1021	Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
				1022	(Torkel Lyng)</li>
				1023	<li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
				1024	<li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
				1025	debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
				1026	xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
				1027	handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
				1028	memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
				1029	handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
				1030	htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
				1031	(William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
				1032	xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
				1033	(William)</li>
				1034	<li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
				1035	(Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
				1036	xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
				1037	to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
				1038	tag (William)</li>
				1039	<li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
				1040	schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
				1041	</ul>
				1042
Daniel Veillard	45cb0f4	2004-07-05 17:45:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1043	<h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3>
				1044	<ul>
				1045	<li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
				1046	attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
				1047	<li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
				1048	(William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
				1049	<li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
				1050	path on Windows</li>
				1051	<li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
Daniel Veillard	b331fff	2004-08-22 14:21:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1052	(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
Daniel Veillard	45cb0f4	2004-07-05 17:45:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1053	<li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
				1054	properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
				1055	(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
				1056	by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
Daniel Veillard	b331fff	2004-08-22 14:21:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1057	with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
Daniel Veillard	45cb0f4	2004-07-05 17:45:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1058	Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
				1059	streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
				1060	libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
				1061	Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
				1062	improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
				1063	synchronous behaviour.</li>
				1064	<li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
				1065	namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
				1066	test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
				1067	XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
				1068	Parent and William)</li>
				1069	<li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
				1070	and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
				1071	the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
				1072	</ul>
				1073
Daniel Veillard	8120501	2004-05-18 03:06:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1074	<h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3>
				1075	<ul>
				1076	<li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
				1077	<li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
				1078	<li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
				1079	vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
				1080	use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
				1081	Davis),</li>
				1082	<li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
				1083	(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
				1084	xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
Daniel Veillard	45cb0f4	2004-07-05 17:45:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1085	escaping, added escaping customization</li>
Daniel Veillard	8120501	2004-05-18 03:06:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1086	<li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
				1087	Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
				1088	URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
				1089	transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
				1090	Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
				1091	(William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
				1092	xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
				1093	</ul>
				1094
Daniel Veillard	eca726d	2004-04-18 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1095	<h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3>
				1096	<ul>
				1097	<li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
				1098	<li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
				1099	Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
				1100	William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
				1101	William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
				1102	fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
				1103	validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
				1104	schemas</li>
				1105	<li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
				1106	save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian
				1107	Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
				1108	dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
				1109	clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li>
				1110	<li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
Daniel Veillard	d4cfcef	2004-05-06 18:55:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1111	example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
Daniel Veillard	eca726d	2004-04-18 21:47:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1112	<li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
				1113	compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
				1114	</ul>
				1115
Daniel Veillard	252004d	2004-03-23 12:32:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1116	<h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3>
				1117	<ul>
				1118	<li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
				1119	<li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
				1120	Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
				1121	<li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
				1122	<li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
				1123	<li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
				1124	reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
				1125	failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
				1126	<li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
				1127	<li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
				1128	Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
				1129	URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
				1130	XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
				1131	reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
				1132	groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
Daniel Veillard	d99224d	2004-04-06 10:04:16 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1133	do not close stderr.</li>
Daniel Veillard	252004d	2004-03-23 12:32:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1134	<li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
				1135	<li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
				1136	<li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
				1137	(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
				1138	to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
				1139	Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
				1140	</ul>
				1141
Daniel Veillard	9291449	2004-02-23 16:33:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1142	<h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3>
				1143	<ul>
				1144	<li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
				1145	<li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
				1146	<li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
				1147	<li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
				1148	<li>bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
				1149	mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
				1150	xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
				1151	handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
				1152	<li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
				1153	<li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
				1154	</ul>
				1155
Daniel Veillard	5c9547e	2004-02-12 15:31:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1156	<h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3>
				1157	<ul>
				1158	<li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
				1159	William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
				1160	<li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
				1161	(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
				1162	(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
				1163	Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
				1164	XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
				1165	isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
				1166	entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
				1167	<xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
				1168	<li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
				1169	(Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
				1170	--with-minimum configuration.</li>
				1171	<li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
				1172	<li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
				1173	dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
				1174	<li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
				1175	<li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
				1176	prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
				1177	patch</li>
				1178	<li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
				1179	input.</li>
				1180	</ul>
				1181
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1182	<h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3>
				1183	<ul>
				1184	<li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
				1185	(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
				1186	(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
				1187	namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
				1188	(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
				1189	evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
				1190	XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
				1191	callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
				1192	<li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
				1193	Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
				1194	<li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
				1195	structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
				1196	<li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
				1197	references (William & me), recursion (William)</li>
				1198	<li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
Daniel Veillard	5c9547e	2004-02-12 15:31:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1199	Mickautsch),</li>
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1200	<li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
				1201	<li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
				1202	<li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
				1203	<li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
				1204	XSLT optimizations.</li>
				1205	</ul>
				1206
Daniel Veillard	e6e59cd	2003-12-24 11:56:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1207	<h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3>
				1208	<ul>
				1209	<li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1210	<li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
				1211	<li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
Daniel Veillard	e6e59cd	2003-12-24 11:56:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1212	<li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
				1213	(Lucas Brasilino)</li>
				1214	<li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
				1215	NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
				1216	filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
				1217	again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
				1218	Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
				1219	double inclusion behaviour</li>
				1220	</ul>
				1221
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1222	<h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3>
				1223	<ul>
				1224	<li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
				1225	<li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
Daniel Veillard	e6e59cd	2003-12-24 11:56:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1226	Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1227	<li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
				1228	(Kenneth Haley)</li>
				1229	<li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
				1230	<li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
				1231	<li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li>
				1232	<li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
				1233	<li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
				1234	xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
				1235	(James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
				1236	cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
				1237	Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
				1238	(Daniel Schulman)</li>
				1239	<li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
				1240	namespace change.</li>
				1241	<li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
				1242	namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
Daniel Veillard	e6e59cd	2003-12-24 11:56:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1243	based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1244	<li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
				1245	constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
				1246	when streaming.</li>
				1247	<li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
				1248	</ul>
				1249
Daniel Veillard	6d373a2	2003-11-04 10:26:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1250	<h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3>
				1251	<ul>
				1252	<li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
				1253	<li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
				1254	<li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li>
				1255	<li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
				1256	<li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li>
				1257	<li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
				1258	<li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li>
				1259	<li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard	c480c4e	2003-12-10 13:24:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1260	<li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
Daniel Veillard	6d373a2	2003-11-04 10:26:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1261	<li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
				1262	<li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
				1263	functions</li>
				1264	<li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
				1265	<li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
				1266	<li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
				1267	<li>HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)</li>
				1268	<li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
				1269	<li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
				1270	--xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
				1271	serializer)</li>
				1272	</ul>
				1273
Daniel Veillard	e4e3f5d	2003-10-28 23:06:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1274	<h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3>
				1275	<ul>
				1276	<li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
				1277	<li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
				1278	(William Brack)</li>
				1279	<li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
				1280	Zlatkovic)</li>
				1281	<li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
				1282	<li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
Daniel Veillard	6d373a2	2003-11-04 10:26:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1283	<li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
				1284	Bennett)</li>
Daniel Veillard	e4e3f5d	2003-10-28 23:06:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1285	<li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
				1286	<li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
				1287	(Stephane Bidoul)</li>
				1288	<li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
				1289	<li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
				1290	<li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
				1291	<li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
				1292	<li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
				1293	Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
				1294	XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
				1295	</ul>
				1296
Daniel Veillard	3e35f8e	2003-10-21 00:05:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1297	<h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3>
				1298	<ul>
				1299	<li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
				1300	of change</li>
				1301	<li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
				1302	a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
				1303	<li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
				1304	text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
				1305	<li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
				1306	provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
				1307	allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
				1308	immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
				1309	<li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
				1310	intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
				1311	available.</li>
				1312	<li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
				1313	easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
				1314	consecutive documents.</li>
				1315	<li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
				1316	functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
				1317	bindings</li>
				1318	<li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
				1319	Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
				1320	make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
				1321	extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
				1322	algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
				1323	access</li>
				1324	<li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
				1325	<li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
				1326	<li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
				1327	and charset informations if available.</li>
				1328	<li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
				1329	zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
				1330	<li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
				1331	output</li>
				1332	<li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
				1333	convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
				1334	Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
				1335	Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
				1336	warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
				1337	'Shard' Konicki)</li>
				1338	<li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
				1339	tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
				1340	<li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
				1341	mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
				1342	and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
				1343	on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
				1344	namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
				1345	(Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
				1346	Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
				1347	mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
				1348	(William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
				1349	error handling.</li>
				1350	<li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
				1351	testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
				1352	replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
				1353	declarations</li>
				1354	<li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
				1355	<li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
				1356	xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
				1357	allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
				1358	on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
				1359	<li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
				1360	<li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
				1361	<li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
				1362	parser instead.</li>
				1363	</ul>
				1364
Daniel Veillard	eec1ae9	2003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1365	<h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3>
				1366
				1367	<p>A bugfix only release:</p>
				1368	<ul>
				1369	<li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
				1370	<li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
				1371	</ul>
				1372
Daniel Veillard	cfba2fe	2003-08-15 00:33:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1373	<h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3>
				1374
				1375	<p>A bugfixes only release</p>
				1376	<ul>
				1377	<li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
				1378	<li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
				1379	<li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
Daniel Veillard	eec1ae9	2003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1380	on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
Daniel Veillard	cfba2fe	2003-08-15 00:33:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1381	<li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
				1382	<li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
				1383	<li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
				1384	<li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
Daniel Veillard	eec1ae9	2003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1385	<li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard	cfba2fe	2003-08-15 00:33:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1386	</ul>
				1387
Daniel Veillard	83ee40d	2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1388	<h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3>
				1389	<ul>
				1390	<li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
				1391	(Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
				1392	(Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
				1393	xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
				1394	Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
				1395	content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
				1396	progressive HTML parser</li>
				1397	<li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
				1398	<li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
				1399	<li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
				1400	<li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
				1401	<li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
				1402	<li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
				1403	<li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
				1404	<li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
				1405	Brack)</li>
				1406	</ul>
				1407
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1408	<h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3>
				1409	<ul>
				1410	<li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
				1411	Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
				1412	PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
				1413	Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
				1414	rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
				1415	xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
				1416	<li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
				1417	<li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
				1418	<li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
				1419	<li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
				1420	Bidoul)</li>
				1421	<li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
				1422	<li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
				1423	<li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
Daniel Veillard	83ee40d	2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1424	generator</li>
				1425	<li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1426	<li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
				1427	</ul>
				1428
Daniel Veillard	92fc02c	2003-04-24 23:12:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1429	<h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3>
				1430	<ul>
				1431	<li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
				1432	xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
				1433	<li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
				1434	<li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
				1435	<li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
				1436	<li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
				1437	(Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
				1438	and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
				1439	behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
Daniel Veillard	93d9525	2003-04-29 20:25:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1440	error conditions</li>
Daniel Veillard	92fc02c	2003-04-24 23:12:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1441	<li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
				1442	allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
				1443	accordingly.</li>
				1444	<li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
				1445	xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
				1446	<li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
				1447	<li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
				1448	</ul>
				1449
Daniel Veillard	c2d4a93	2003-04-01 11:13:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1450	<h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3>
				1451	<ul>
				1452	<li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
				1453	binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
				1454	<li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
				1455	XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
				1456	Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
				1457	<li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
				1458	<li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
				1459	<li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
				1460	errors</li>
				1461	</ul>
				1462
				1463	<h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3>
Daniel Veillard	d8da01c	2003-03-24 15:58:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1464	<ul>
				1465	<li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
				1466	DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
				1467	<li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
				1468	<li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
				1469	<li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
				1470	conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
				1471	<li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
				1472	<li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
				1473	</ul>
				1474
Daniel Veillard	17bed98	2003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1475	<h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3>
				1476	<ul>
				1477	<li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
				1478	implementation</li>
				1479	<li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
				1480	<li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
				1481	namespaces,
				1482	<p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
				1483	generation problem.</p>
				1484	</li>
				1485	<li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
				1486	<li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
				1487	<li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
				1488	</ul>
				1489
Daniel Veillard	1d788d2	2003-02-10 16:21:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1490	<h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3>
				1491	<ul>
				1492	<li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
				1493	version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
				1494	<li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
				1495	serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
				1496	serialization</li>
				1497	<li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
				1498	</ul>
				1499
Daniel Veillard	72fef16	2003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1500	<h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3>
				1501	<ul>
				1502	<li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
				1503	<li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
				1504	<li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
				1505	delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
				1506	XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
				1507	consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
				1508	namespaces</li>
				1509	<li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
				1510	<li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
				1511	patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
				1512	<li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
				1513	<li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
				1514	(Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
				1515	<li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
Daniel Veillard	cf27f7c	2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1516	</ul>
				1517
Daniel Veillard	e2830f1	2003-01-08 17:47:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1518	<h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3>
				1519	<ul>
				1520	<li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
				1521	<li>documentation updates (John)</li>
				1522	<li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
				1523	</ul>
				1524
Daniel Veillard	7b4b2f9	2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1525	<h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3>
				1526	<ul>
				1527	<li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
				1528	API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
				1529	<li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
				1530	<li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
				1531	<li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
				1532	drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
				1533	and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
				1534	<li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
				1535	(John)</li>
				1536	<li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
				1537	<li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
				1538	<li>Entities handling fixes</li>
				1539	<li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
				1540	Schroeder)</li>
				1541	<li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a
				1542	href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
				1543	</ul>
				1544
Daniel Veillard	c1eed32	2002-12-12 11:01:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1545	<h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3>
				1546	<ul>
				1547	<li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
				1548	<li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
				1549	fixes.</li>
				1550	</ul>
				1551
Daniel Veillard	9b4bb4d	2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1552	<h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3>
				1553	<ul>
				1554	<li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
				1555	(Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
				1556	<li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
				1557	<li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
				1558	<li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
				1559	dump</li>
				1560	<li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
				1561	<li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
				1562	<li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
				1563	<li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
				1564	more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
				1565	</ul>
				1566
Daniel Veillard	f9c4cad	2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1567	<h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3>
				1568	<ul>
				1569	<li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
				1570	<li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
				1571	<li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
				1572	<li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
				1573	<li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
				1574	<li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
Daniel Veillard	9b4bb4d	2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1575	<li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillard	f9c4cad	2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1576	</ul>
				1577
Daniel Veillard	dad3f68	2002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1578	<h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3>
				1579	<ul>
				1580	<li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
				1581	<li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
				1582	HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
				1583	(Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
				1584	xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
				1585	Pajas), entities processing</li>
				1586	<li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
				1587	<li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
				1588	<li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
				1589	better thread support on Windows</li>
				1590	<li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
				1591	<li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
				1592	</ul>
				1593
Daniel Veillard	4826743	2002-10-18 11:21:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1594	<h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3>
				1595	<ul>
				1596	<li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
				1597	<li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
				1598	HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
				1599	problems</li>
				1600	</ul>
				1601
Daniel Veillard	e16b574	2002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1602	<h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3>
				1603	<ul>
				1604	<li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
				1605	tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
				1606	<li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
				1607	<li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
				1608	and improvement of the regexp core</li>
				1609	<li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
				1610	<li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
				1611	Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
				1612	<li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
Daniel Veillard	321be0c	2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1613	APIs</li>
Daniel Veillard	e16b574	2002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1614	<li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
				1615	<li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
				1616	<li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
				1617	Merlet)</li>
				1618	<li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
				1619	<li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
				1620	<li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
				1621	</ul>
				1622
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1623	<p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p>
				1624	<ul>
				1625	<li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
				1626	<li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
				1627	(fcrozat)</li>
				1628	<li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
				1629	<li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillard	e166254	2002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1630	<li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1631	<li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
				1632	<li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
				1633	</ul>
				1634
Daniel Veillard	782afda	2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1635	<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
				1636	<ul>
				1637	<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
				1638	<li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
				1639	<li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
				1640	<li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
				1641	<li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
				1642	Peter Jacobi</li>
				1643	<li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
				1644	HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
				1645	<li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
				1646	</ul>
				1647
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1648	<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
				1649	<ul>
				1650	<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
				1651	usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard	2147367	2002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1652	indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1653	<li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
				1654	protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
				1655	<li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
				1656	<li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
				1657	datatypes</li>
				1658	</ul>
				1659
Daniel Veillard	cf27f7c	2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1660	<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
				1661
				1662	<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
				1663	Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a
				1664	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
				1665	interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
				1666	progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillard	e6d8e20	2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1667	it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillard	cf27f7c	2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1668	<ul>
				1669	<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
				1670	<li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
				1671	<li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
				1672	Jinks</li>
				1673	<li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
				1674	<li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1675	</ul>
				1676
Daniel Veillard	a7084cd	2002-04-15 17:12:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1677	<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
				1678	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1679	<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard	a7084cd	2002-04-15 17:12:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1680	<li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
				1681	<li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
				1682	libxml.m4</li>
				1683	</ul>
				1684
Daniel Veillard	1927409	2002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1685	<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
				1686	<ul>
				1687	<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
				1688	encoder</li>
				1689	<li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
Daniel Veillard	b2fb8ed	2002-04-01 09:33:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1690	<li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
Daniel Veillard	1927409	2002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1691	<li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
				1692	</ul>
				1693
Daniel Veillard	34ce8be	2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1694	<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
				1695	<ul>
				1696	<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1697	XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard	34ce8be	2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1698	<li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
				1699	<li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
				1700	<li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
				1701	<li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
				1702	</ul>
				1703
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1704	<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
				1705	<ul>
				1706	<li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
				1707	XPath"</li>
				1708	<li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
				1709	regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1710	<li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1711	</ul>
				1712
Daniel Veillard	5f4b599	2002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1713	<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
				1714	<ul>
				1715	<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
				1716	from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
				1717	<li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
				1718	</ul>
				1719
Daniel Veillard	397ff11	2002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1720	<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
				1721	<ul>
				1722	<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
				1723	<li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
				1724	<li>Includes cleanup</li>
				1725	</ul>
				1726
Daniel Veillard	b6c1e2f	2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1727	<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
				1728	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1729	<li>Change of License to the <a
Daniel Veillard	b6c1e2f	2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1730	href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1731	License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
				1732	confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard	b6c1e2f	2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1733	<li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
				1734	complete</li>
				1735	<li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
				1736	manipulations</li>
				1737	<li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
				1738	XML</li>
				1739	</ul>
				1740
				1741	<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard	744683d	2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1742	<ul>
				1743	<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
				1744	<li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
				1745	<li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
				1746	Narojnyi</li>
				1747	<li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
				1748	<li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
				1749	</ul>
				1750
Daniel Veillard	ef90ba7	2001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1751	<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
				1752	<ul>
				1753	<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
				1754	XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
				1755	(robert)</li>
				1756	<li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
				1757	<li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
				1758	</ul>
				1759
Daniel Veillard	a487105	2001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1760	<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
				1761	<ul>
				1762	<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
				1763	cleanups</li>
				1764	<li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
				1765	<li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
				1766	<li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
				1767	</ul>
				1768
Daniel Veillard	43d3f61	2001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1769	<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
				1770	<ul>
				1771	<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
				1772	<li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
				1773	<li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
				1774	<li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
				1775	--encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
				1776	<li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
				1777	<li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
				1778	</ul>
				1779
				1780	<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
				1781	<ul>
				1782	<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
				1783	<li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
				1784	</ul>
				1785
Daniel Veillard	ed421aa	2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1786	<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
				1787	<ul>
				1788	<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
				1789	tool</li>
				1790	<li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
				1791	</ul>
				1792
Daniel Veillard	52dcab3	2001-10-30 12:51:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1793	<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
				1794	<ul>
				1795	<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
				1796	<li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
				1797	<li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
				1798	and regression tests</li>
				1799	<li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
				1800	<li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
				1801	<li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
				1802	<li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
				1803	<li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
				1804	<li>general bug fixes</li>
				1805	<li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
				1806	<li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
				1807	</ul>
				1808
Daniel Veillard	60087f3	2001-10-10 09:45:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1809	<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
				1810	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	52dcab3	2001-10-30 12:51:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1811	<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard	60087f3	2001-10-10 09:45:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1812	<li>portability and configure fixes</li>
				1813	<li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
				1814	<li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1815	<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
Daniel Veillard	60087f3	2001-10-10 09:45:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1816	<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
				1817	</ul>
				1818
Daniel Veillard	dadd087	2001-09-15 09:21:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1819	<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
				1820	<ul>
				1821	<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
				1822	<li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
				1823	version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
				1824	</ul>
				1825
				1826	<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
				1827	<ul>
				1828	<li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
				1829	portability fixes</li>
				1830	</ul>
				1831
Daniel Veillard	04382ae	2001-09-12 18:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1832	<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
				1833	<ul>
				1834	<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
				1835	Catalog</li>
				1836	<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
				1837	<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
				1838	</ul>
				1839
Daniel Veillard	3993690	2001-08-24 00:49:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1840	<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
				1841	<ul>
				1842	<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
				1843	<li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
				1844	<li>A few bug fixes</li>
				1845	</ul>
				1846
				1847	<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1848	<ul>
				1849	<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
				1850	<li>lot of bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1851	<li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1852	<li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
				1853	<li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
				1854	<li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
				1855	</ul>
				1856
				1857	<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
				1858	<ul>
				1859	<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
				1860	<li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
				1861	<li>extension of the XPath API</li>
				1862	<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
				1863	<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillard	09ab7e1	2001-07-10 15:49:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1864	</ul>
				1865
				1866	<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
				1867	<ul>
				1868	<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1869	<li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillard	09ab7e1	2001-07-10 15:49:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1870	regression tests</li>
				1871	<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1872	</ul>
				1873
Daniel Veillard	5b43fde	2001-07-05 23:31:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1874	<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
				1875	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1876	<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
				1877	substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard	5b43fde	2001-07-05 23:31:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1878	<li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1879	substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard	5b43fde	2001-07-05 23:31:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1880	<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
				1881	<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
				1882	<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1883	<li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillard	5b43fde	2001-07-05 23:31:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1884	</ul>
				1885
Daniel Veillard	2adbb51	2001-06-28 16:20:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1886	<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
				1887	<ul>
				1888	<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
				1889	<li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
				1890	</ul>
				1891
				1892	<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
				1893	<ul>
				1894	<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
				1895	<li>Small Makefile fix</li>
				1896	</ul>
				1897
Daniel Veillard	1164810	2001-06-26 16:08:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1898	<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
				1899	<ul>
				1900	<li>lots of cleanup</li>
				1901	<li>a couple of validation fix</li>
				1902	<li>fixed line number counting</li>
				1903	<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
				1904	<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
				1905	<li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
				1906	miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
				1907	optimizer on Tru64</li>
				1908	<li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
				1909	compilation on Windows MSC</li>
				1910	<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
				1911	<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
				1912	</ul>
				1913
Daniel Veillard	e3c81b5	2001-06-17 14:50:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1914	<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
				1915	<ul>
				1916	<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
				1917	problems (alpha)</li>
				1918	<li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
				1919	handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
				1920	<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
				1921	<li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
				1922	parser</li>
				1923	<li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
				1924	node selection)</li>
				1925	<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
				1926	<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
				1927	<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
				1928	<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
				1929	</ul>
				1930
Daniel Veillard	2e4f188	2001-06-01 10:11:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1931	<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
				1932	<ul>
				1933	<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1934	<li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
				1935	XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard	2e4f188	2001-06-01 10:11:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1936	<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
				1937	</ul>
				1938
Daniel Veillard	4623acd	2001-05-19 15:13:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1939	<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
				1940
				1941	<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
				1942	<ul>
				1943	<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1944	<li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
Daniel Veillard	4623acd	2001-05-19 15:13:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1945	<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1946	<li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
Daniel Veillard	4623acd	2001-05-19 15:13:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1947	<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
				1948	<li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
				1949	xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
				1950	<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
				1951	<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
				1952	<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
				1953	<li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
				1954	<li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
				1955	<li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
				1956	<li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
				1957	</ul>
				1958
Daniel Veillard	a265af7	2001-05-14 11:13:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1959	<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
				1960	<ul>
				1961	<li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
				1962	</ul>
				1963
Daniel Veillard	3bbbe6f	2001-05-03 11:15:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1964	<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
				1965	<ul>
				1966	<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
				1967	<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
				1968	<li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
				1969	point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1970	<li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
				1971	DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard	3bbbe6f	2001-05-03 11:15:37 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1972	<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
				1973	<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
				1974	<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
				1975	<li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
				1976	</ul>
				1977
Daniel Veillard	a41123c	2001-04-22 19:31:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1978	<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
				1979	<ul>
				1980	<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1981	<li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
Daniel Veillard	a41123c	2001-04-22 19:31:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1982	<li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
				1983	<li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1984	<li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
Daniel Veillard	a41123c	2001-04-22 19:31:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1985	<li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1986	<li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
Daniel Veillard	a41123c	2001-04-22 19:31:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1987	<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
				1988	<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
				1989	<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
				1990	</ul>
				1991
Daniel Veillard	afc7311	2001-04-11 11:51:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1992	<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
				1993	<ul>
				1994	<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
				1995	cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
				1996	<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
				1997	<li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
				1998	trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
				1999	them</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2000	<li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
				2001	problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
				2002	broken ...</li>
Daniel Veillard	afc7311	2001-04-11 11:51:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2003	</ul>
				2004
Daniel Veillard	56a4cb8	2001-03-24 17:00:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2005	<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
				2006	<ul>
				2007	<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
				2008	there is some new APIs for this too</li>
				2009	<li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
				2010	52299)</li>
				2011	<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
				2012	</ul>
				2013
Daniel Veillard	e356c28	2001-03-10 12:32:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2014	<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
				2015	<ul>
				2016	<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
				2017	<li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
				2018	size to be application tunable.</li>
				2019	<li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
				2020	should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
				2021	<li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
				2022	parser</li>
				2023	<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
				2024	<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
				2025	<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
				2026	<li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2027	are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillard	e356c28	2001-03-10 12:32:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2028	</ul>
				2029
Daniel Veillard	b402c07	2001-03-01 17:28:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2030	<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
				2031	<ul>
				2032	<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
				2033	<li>documentation cleanups</li>
				2034	<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
				2035	<li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
				2036	</ul>
				2037
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2038	<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard	7168110	2001-02-24 17:48:53 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2039	<ul>
				2040	<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
				2041	<li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
				2042	<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
				2043	<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
				2044	</ul>
				2045
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2046	<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard	6e6a6cc	2001-02-15 15:55:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2047	<ul>
				2048	<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
				2049	<li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
				2050	implementation</li>
				2051	<li>A few bug fixes</li>
				2052	</ul>
				2053
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2054	<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
Daniel Veillard	6e6a6cc	2001-02-15 15:55:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2055	<ul>
				2056	<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
				2057	<li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
				2058	XSLT</li>
				2059	<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
				2060	<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
				2061	<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
				2062	<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
				2063	<li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
				2064	libxml2-devel</li>
				2065	<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
				2066	<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
				2067	<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
				2068	<li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2069	<li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillard	6e6a6cc	2001-02-15 15:55:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2070	</ul>
				2071
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2072	<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard	503b893	2001-01-05 06:36:31 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2073	<ul>
				2074	<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
				2075	<li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
				2076	<li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
				2077	<li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2078	<li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillard	503b893	2001-01-05 06:36:31 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2079	</ul>
				2080
Daniel Veillard	2ddd23d	2000-11-25 10:42:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2081	<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard	9d343c4	2000-11-25 10:12:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2082	<ul>
				2083	<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
				2084	<li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
				2085	<li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
				2086	<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
				2087	<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
				2088	</ul>
				2089
Daniel Veillard	2ddd23d	2000-11-25 10:42:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2090	<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
				2091	<ul>
				2092	<li>erroneous release :-(</li>
				2093	</ul>
				2094
Daniel Veillard	28929b2	2000-11-13 18:22:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2095	<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
				2096	<ul>
				2097	<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
				2098	support</li>
				2099	<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
				2100	<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
				2101	<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
				2102	<li>added an URI escaping function</li>
				2103	<li>some other bug fixes</li>
				2104	</ul>
				2105
				2106	<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
				2107	<ul>
				2108	<li>added message redirection</li>
				2109	<li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
				2110	<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
				2111	<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
				2112	<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
				2113	</ul>
				2114
Daniel Veillard	29a11cc	2000-10-25 13:32:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2115	<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
				2116	<ul>
				2117	<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
				2118	those</li>
				2119	<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
				2120	<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
				2121	<li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
				2122	normalization)</li>
				2123	<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
				2124	<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
				2125	</ul>
				2126
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2127	<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
Daniel Veillard	4c3a203	1999-11-19 17:46:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2128	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	189446d	2000-10-13 10:23:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2129	<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
				2130	<li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
				2131	tests</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2132	<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
				2133	and release</li>
Daniel Veillard	189446d	2000-10-13 10:23:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2134	<li>Late validation fixes</li>
				2135	<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
				2136	<li>added memory management docs</li>
Daniel Veillard	ab8500d	2000-10-15 21:06:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2137	<li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard	189446d	2000-10-13 10:23:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2138	</ul>
				2139
				2140	<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
				2141	<ul>
				2142	<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
				2143	<li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
				2144	<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2145	</ul>
				2146
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2147	<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
				2148	<ul>
				2149	<li>bug fixes</li>
				2150	<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
				2151	<li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
				2152	checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2153	<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2154	works smoothly now.</li>
				2155	</ul>
				2156
				2157	<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
				2158	<ul>
				2159	<li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
				2160	</ul>
				2161
				2162	<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard	786d7c8	2000-08-12 23:38:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2163	<ul>
				2164	<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard	ec78c0f	2000-08-25 10:25:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2165	<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillard	786d7c8	2000-08-12 23:38:57 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2166	</ul>
				2167
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2168	<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard	a2679fa	2000-07-22 02:38:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2169	<ul>
				2170	<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
				2171	<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
				2172	<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2173	<li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
				2174	allocation routines</li>
Daniel Veillard	a2679fa	2000-07-22 02:38:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2175	</ul>
				2176
Daniel Veillard	d5f97f8	2000-09-17 16:38:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2177	<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard	94e9060	2000-07-17 14:38:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2178	<ul>
				2179	<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
				2180	<li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
				2181	encoded in UTF-8)</li>
				2182	<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
				2183	<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
				2184	<li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li>
				2185	<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
				2186	<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
				2187	<li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
				2188	support</a></li>
				2189	</ul>
				2190
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2191	<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
				2192	<ul>
				2193	<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
				2194	<li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
				2195	rpmfind users problem</li>
				2196	</ul>
				2197
Daniel Veillard	6388e17	2000-07-03 16:07:19 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2198	<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
				2199	<ul>
				2200	<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
				2201	<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
				2202	</ul>
				2203
Daniel Veillard	3f6f7f6	2000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2204	<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
				2205	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2206	<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
				2207	to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillard	3f6f7f6	2000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2208	about &#38; charref parsing</li>
				2209	<li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
				2210	also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
				2211	<ul>
				2212	<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
				2213	<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
				2214	<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2215	<li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillard	3f6f7f6	2000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2216	related problems</li>
				2217	<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
				2218	<li>lot of various fixes</li>
				2219	</ul>
				2220	</li>
				2221	</ul>
				2222
Daniel Veillard	e0aed30	2000-04-16 08:52:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2223	<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2224	<ul>
				2225	<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2226	idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
				2227	scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillard	e0aed30	2000-04-16 08:52:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2228	workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2229	<li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillard	e0aed30	2000-04-16 08:52:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2230	$prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2231	<pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre>
Daniel Veillard	e0aed30	2000-04-16 08:52:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2232	<p>instead of</p>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2233	<pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
				2234	</li>
Daniel Veillard	8f62198	2000-03-20 13:07:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2235	<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
				2236	<li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
				2237	dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2238	<li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
				2239	<strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
				2240	package</li>
Daniel Veillard	e0aed30	2000-04-16 08:52:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2241	<li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
				2242	specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
				2243	xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
				2244	parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
				2245	<li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
				2246	number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2247	<li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
				2248	configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2249	</ul>
				2250
				2251	<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
				2252	<ul>
				2253	<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard	e356c28	2001-03-10 12:32:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2254	<li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
				2255	FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
				2256	RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2257	<li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
				2258	available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2259	<li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
				2260	of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
				2261	<a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2262	<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
				2263	<li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2264	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2265	<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
				2266	handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2267	<li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2268	and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2269	<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2270	<li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2271	<li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2272	structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	6c8b117	2000-03-01 00:40:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2273	</ul>
				2274	</li>
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2275	<li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a
				2276	href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2277	OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillard	edfb29b	2000-03-14 19:59:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2278	encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
				2279	head version.</li>
Daniel Veillard	e41f2b7	2000-01-30 20:00:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2280	</ul>
				2281
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2282	<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
				2283	<ul>
				2284	<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
				2285	<li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
				2286	libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2287	that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
				2288	default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
				2289	old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2290	<li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
				2291	avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2292	<li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
				2293	compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
				2294	<li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
				2295	URIs</li>
				2296	</ul>
				2297
Daniel Veillard	e41f2b7	2000-01-30 20:00:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2298	<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
				2299	<ul>
				2300	<li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a
				2301	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
				2302	it without troubles</li>
Daniel Veillard	da07c34	2000-01-25 18:31:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2303	</ul>
				2304
				2305	<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
				2306	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2307	<li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2308	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the
				2309	XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard	461a66c	2000-01-18 18:01:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2310	<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2311	<li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
				2312	to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard	461a66c	2000-01-18 18:01:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2313	<li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
				2314	gnumeric soon</li>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2315	</ul>
				2316
				2317	<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
				2318	<ul>
				2319	<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
				2320	<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
				2321	<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
				2322	<li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillard	f84f71f	2000-01-05 19:54:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2323	</ul>
				2324
				2325	<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
				2326	<ul>
				2327	<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2328	<li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2329	<li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
Daniel Veillard	437b87b	2000-01-03 17:30:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2330	<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
Daniel Veillard	f84f71f	2000-01-05 19:54:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2331	<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
				2332	<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard	437b87b	2000-01-03 17:30:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2333	<li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillard	f84f71f	2000-01-05 19:54:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2334	xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard	437b87b	2000-01-03 17:30:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2335	<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillard	5cb5ab8	1999-12-21 15:35:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2336	</ul>
				2337
				2338	<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
				2339	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2340	<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
				2341	for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard	5cb5ab8	1999-12-21 15:35:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2342	<li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
				2343	xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
				2344	xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
				2345	<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a
				2346	href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	e4e5131	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2347	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2348
Daniel Veillard	e4e5131	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2349	<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
				2350	<ul>
				2351	<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
				2352	the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
				2353	<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
				2354	<li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
				2355	and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard	944b5ff	1999-12-15 19:08:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2356	<li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
				2357	Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2358	<li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillard	10a2c65	1999-12-12 13:03:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2359	</ul>
				2360
				2361	<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
				2362	<ul>
				2363	<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
				2364	<li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
				2365	not crash, whatever the input !</li>
				2366	<li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
				2367	dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
				2368	configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
				2369	<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2370	<li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
				2371	does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillard	4c3a203	1999-11-19 17:46:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2372	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	3500838	1999-10-25 13:15:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2373
				2374	<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2375	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	3500838	1999-10-25 13:15:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2376	<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
				2377	<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
				2378	<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
				2379	<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
				2380	</ul>
				2381
				2382	<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
				2383	<ul>
				2384	<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2385	<li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillard	3500838	1999-10-25 13:15:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2386	were it's not available, fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2387	</ul>
				2388
				2389	<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
				2390	<ul>
				2391	<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
				2392	1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2393	is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
				2394	on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2395	<strong>#define </strong>.</li>
				2396	<li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
				2397	leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
				2398	</ul>
				2399
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2400	<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2401	<ul>
				2402	<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a
Daniel Veillard	9cb5ff4	2001-01-29 08:22:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2403	href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2404	<li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
				2405	like callback</li>
				2406	<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
				2407	<li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a
Daniel Veillard	9cb5ff4	2001-01-29 08:22:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2408	href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2409	<li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
				2410	implementation</li>
				2411	<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
				2412	</ul>
				2413
				2414	<h2><a name="XML">XML</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2415
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2416	<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">XML is a standard</a> for
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2417	markup-based structured documents. Here is <a name="example">an example XML
				2418	document</a>:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2419	<pre><?xml version="1.0"?>
				2420	<EXAMPLE prop1="gnome is great" prop2="&amp; linux too">
				2421	<head>
				2422	<title>Welcome to Gnome</title>
				2423	</head>
				2424	<chapter>
				2425	<title>The Linux adventure</title>
				2426	<p>bla bla bla ...</p>
				2427	<image href="linus.gif"/>
				2428	<p>...</p>
				2429	</chapter>
				2430	</EXAMPLE></pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2431
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2432	<p>The first line specifies that it is an XML document and gives useful
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2433	information about its encoding. Then the rest of the document is a text
				2434	format whose structure is specified by tags between brackets. <strong>Each
				2435	tag opened has to be closed</strong>. XML is pedantic about this. However, if
				2436	a tag is empty (no content), a single tag can serve as both the opening and
				2437	closing tag if it ends with <code>/></code> rather than with
				2438	<code>></code>. Note that, for example, the image tag has no content (just
				2439	an attribute) and is closed by ending the tag with <code>/></code>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2440
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2441	<p>XML can be applied successfully to a wide range of tasks, ranging from
				2442	long term structured document maintenance (where it follows the steps of
				2443	SGML) to simple data encoding mechanisms like configuration file formatting
				2444	(glade), spreadsheets (gnumeric), or even shorter lived documents such as
				2445	WebDAV where it is used to encode remote calls between a client and a
				2446	server.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2447
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2448	<h2><a name="XSLT">XSLT</a></h2>
				2449
Daniel Veillard	6e6a6cc	2001-02-15 15:55:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2450	<p>Check <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT">the separate libxslt page</a></p>
				2451
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2452	<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">XSL Transformations</a>, is a
				2453	language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents (or
				2454	HTML/textual output).</p>
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2455
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2456	<p>A separate library called libxslt is available implementing XSLT-1.0 for
				2457	libxml2. This module "libxslt" too can be found in the Gnome CVS base.</p>
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2458
Daniel Veillard	29f6100	2005-08-06 09:07:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2459	<p>You can check the progresses on the libxslt <a
				2460	href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ChangeLog.html">Changelog</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2461
				2462	<h2><a name="Python">Python and bindings</a></h2>
				2463
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2464	<p>There are a number of language bindings and wrappers available for
				2465	libxml2, the list below is not exhaustive. Please contact the <a
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2466	href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-bindings">xml-bindings@gnome.org</a>
				2467	(<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-bindings/">archives</a>) in
				2468	order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2
				2469	or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p>
				2470	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	c14401e	2002-11-20 14:28:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2471	<li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">Libxml++</a> seems the
				2472	most up-to-date C++ bindings for libxml2, check the <a
				2473	href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/reference/html/hierarchy.html">documentation</a>
				2474	and the <a
				2475	href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/libxmlplusplus/libxml%2b%2b/examples/">examples</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2476	<li>There is another <a href="http://libgdome-cpp.berlios.de/">C++ wrapper
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2477	based on the gdome2 bindings</a> maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
Daniel Veillard	9b6fd30	2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2478	<li>and a third C++ wrapper by Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.org>
				2479	<p>Website: <a
				2480	href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/</a></p>
				2481	</li>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2482	<li><a
				2483	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2484	Sergeant</a> developed <a
				2485	href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a Perl wrapper for
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2486	libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2487	application server</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	4ac494b	2003-09-18 15:08:00 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2488	<li>If you're interested into scripting XML processing, have a look at <a
				2489	href="http://xsh.sourceforge.net/">XSH</a> an XML editing shell based on
				2490	Libxml2 Perl bindings.</li>
Daniel Veillard	2147367	2002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2491	<li><a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides an
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2492	earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2493	href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	2147367	2002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2494	<li>Gopal.V and Peter Minten develop <a
				2495	href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libxmlsharp">libxml#</a>, a set of
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2496	C# libxml2 bindings.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2497	<li>Petr Kozelka provides <a
				2498	href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2499	libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b2fb8ed	2002-04-01 09:33:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2500	<li>Uwe Fechner also provides <a
				2501	href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/idom2-pas/">idom2</a>, a DOM2
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2502	implementation for Kylix2/D5/D6 from Borland.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	2503	<li>There is <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/xml-tools/">bindings
				2504	for Ruby</a> and libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the
				2505	<a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2506	maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2507	<li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a
				2508	href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2509	Tcl</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	142fb21	2005-04-07 12:48:10 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2510	<li>libxml2 and libxslt is the default XML library for PHP5.</li>
Daniel Veillard	41b01a8	2003-02-27 11:09:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2511	<li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx/">LibxmlJ</a> is
Daniel Veillard	806cada	2003-03-19 21:58:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2512	an effort to create a 100% JAXP-compatible Java wrapper for libxml2 and
				2513	libxslt as part of GNU ClasspathX project.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6d373a2	2003-11-04 10:26:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2514	<li>Patrick McPhee provides Rexx bindings fof libxml2 and libxslt, look for
				2515	<a href="http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/software.html">RexxXML</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	2516	<li><a
				2517	href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/xml_suite.html">Satimage</a>
Daniel Veillard	b78757b	2004-12-30 21:30:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2518	provides <a
				2519	href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads_osaxen.html">XMLLib
				2520	osax</a>. This is an osax for Mac OS X with a set of commands to
				2521	implement in AppleScript the XML DOM, XPATH and XSLT. Also includes
Daniel Veillard	c742609	2005-01-05 15:11:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2522	commands for Property-lists (Apple's fast lookup table XML format.)</li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	2523	<li>Francesco Montorsi developped <a
				2524	href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51305&package_id=45182">wxXml2</a>
Daniel Veillard	c742609	2005-01-05 15:11:41 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2525	wrappers that interface libxml2, allowing wxWidgets applications to
				2526	load/save/edit XML instances.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2527	</ul>
				2528
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2529	<p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are guaranteed
				2530	to be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python
Daniel Veillard	41b01a8	2003-02-27 11:09:06 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2531	interface have not yet reached the completeness of the C API.</p>
Daniel Veillard	7b4b2f9	2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2532
Daniel Veillard	929746e	2005-05-11 11:08:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2533	<p>Note that some of the Python purist dislike the default set of Python
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	2534	bindings, rather than complaining I suggest they have a look at <a
				2535	href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml the more pythonic bindings for libxml2
				2536	and libxslt</a> and <a
				2537	href="http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/lxml-dev">help Martijn
				2538	Faassen</a> complete those.</p>
Daniel Veillard	929746e	2005-05-11 11:08:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2539
Daniel Veillard	27907c7	2002-12-16 16:05:58 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2540	<p><a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">Stéphane Bidoul</a>
Daniel Veillard	7b4b2f9	2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2541	maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows port
				2542	of the Python bindings</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2543
Daniel Veillard	7ef0fcb	2002-12-14 10:38:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2544	<p>Note to people interested in building bindings, the API is formalized as
				2545	<a href="libxml2-api.xml">an XML API description file</a> which allows to
				2546	automate a large part of the Python bindings, this includes function
Daniel Veillard	7b4b2f9	2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2547	descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used to
				2548	build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p>
Daniel Veillard	7ef0fcb	2002-12-14 10:38:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2549
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2550	<p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p>
Daniel Veillard	0b79dfe	2002-02-23 13:02:31 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2551	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2552	<li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a
				2553	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python
				2554	RPM</a> (and if needed the <a
				2555	href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python
				2556	RPM</a>).</li>
				2557	<li>Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/python/">libxml2-python
				2558	module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of
				2559	libxml2 and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2
				2560	and libxslt installed and run "python setup.py build install" in the
				2561	module tree.</li>
Daniel Veillard	0b79dfe	2002-02-23 13:02:31 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2562	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2563
				2564	<p>The distribution includes a set of examples and regression tests for the
				2565	python bindings in the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2566	excerpts from those tests:</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2567
				2568	<h3>tst.py:</h3>
				2569
				2570	<p>This is a basic test of the file interface and DOM navigation:</p>
MST 2003 John Fleck	2dffb76	2003-11-29 04:41:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2571	<pre>import libxml2, sys
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2572
				2573	doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
				2574	if doc.name != "tst.xml":
				2575	print "doc.name failed"
				2576	sys.exit(1)
				2577	root = doc.children
				2578	if root.name != "doc":
				2579	print "root.name failed"
				2580	sys.exit(1)
				2581	child = root.children
				2582	if child.name != "foo":
				2583	print "child.name failed"
				2584	sys.exit(1)
				2585	doc.freeDoc()</pre>
				2586
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2587	<p>The Python module is called libxml2; parseFile is the equivalent of
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2588	xmlParseFile (most of the bindings are automatically generated, and the xml
				2589	prefix is removed and the casing convention are kept). All node seen at the
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2590	binding level share the same subset of accessors:</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2591	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2592	<li><code>name</code> : returns the node name</li>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2593	<li><code>type</code> : returns a string indicating the node type</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2594	<li><code>content</code> : returns the content of the node, it is based on
				2595	xmlNodeGetContent() and hence is recursive.</li>
				2596	<li><code>parent</code> , <code>children</code>, <code>last</code>,
				2597	<code>next</code>, <code>prev</code>, <code>doc</code>,
				2598	<code>properties</code>: pointing to the associated element in the tree,
				2599	those may return None in case no such link exists.</li>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2600	</ul>
				2601
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2602	<p>Also note the need to explicitly deallocate documents with freeDoc() .
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2603	Reference counting for libxml2 trees would need quite a lot of work to
				2604	function properly, and rather than risk memory leaks if not implemented
				2605	correctly it sounds safer to have an explicit function to free a tree. The
				2606	wrapper python objects like doc, root or child are them automatically garbage
				2607	collected.</p>
				2608
				2609	<h3>validate.py:</h3>
				2610
				2611	<p>This test check the validation interfaces and redirection of error
				2612	messages:</p>
				2613	<pre>import libxml2
				2614
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2615	#deactivate error messages from the validation
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2616	def noerr(ctx, str):
				2617	pass
				2618
				2619	libxml2.registerErrorHandler(noerr, None)
				2620
				2621	ctxt = libxml2.createFileParserCtxt("invalid.xml")
				2622	ctxt.validate(1)
				2623	ctxt.parseDocument()
				2624	doc = ctxt.doc()
				2625	valid = ctxt.isValid()
				2626	doc.freeDoc()
				2627	if valid != 0:
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2628	print "validity check failed"</pre>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2629
				2630	<p>The first thing to notice is the call to registerErrorHandler(), it
				2631	defines a new error handler global to the library. It is used to avoid seeing
				2632	the error messages when trying to validate the invalid document.</p>
				2633
				2634	<p>The main interest of that test is the creation of a parser context with
				2635	createFileParserCtxt() and how the behaviour can be changed before calling
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2636	parseDocument() . Similarly the informations resulting from the parsing phase
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2637	are also available using context methods.</p>
				2638
				2639	<p>Contexts like nodes are defined as class and the libxml2 wrappers maps the
				2640	C function interfaces in terms of objects method as much as possible. The
				2641	best to get a complete view of what methods are supported is to look at the
				2642	libxml2.py module containing all the wrappers.</p>
				2643
				2644	<h3>push.py:</h3>
				2645
				2646	<p>This test show how to activate the push parser interface:</p>
				2647	<pre>import libxml2
				2648
				2649	ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(None, "<foo", 4, "test.xml")
				2650	ctxt.parseChunk("/>", 2, 1)
				2651	doc = ctxt.doc()
				2652
				2653	doc.freeDoc()</pre>
				2654
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2655	<p>The context is created with a special call based on the
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2656	xmlCreatePushParser() from the C library. The first argument is an optional
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2657	SAX callback object, then the initial set of data, the length and the name of
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2658	the resource in case URI-References need to be computed by the parser.</p>
				2659
				2660	<p>Then the data are pushed using the parseChunk() method, the last call
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2661	setting the third argument terminate to 1.</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2662
				2663	<h3>pushSAX.py:</h3>
				2664
				2665	<p>this test show the use of the event based parsing interfaces. In this case
				2666	the parser does not build a document, but provides callback information as
				2667	the parser makes progresses analyzing the data being provided:</p>
				2668	<pre>import libxml2
				2669	log = ""
				2670
				2671	class callback:
				2672	def startDocument(self):
				2673	global log
				2674	log = log + "startDocument:"
				2675
				2676	def endDocument(self):
				2677	global log
				2678	log = log + "endDocument:"
				2679
				2680	def startElement(self, tag, attrs):
				2681	global log
				2682	log = log + "startElement %s %s:" % (tag, attrs)
				2683
				2684	def endElement(self, tag):
				2685	global log
				2686	log = log + "endElement %s:" % (tag)
				2687
				2688	def characters(self, data):
				2689	global log
				2690	log = log + "characters: %s:" % (data)
				2691
				2692	def warning(self, msg):
				2693	global log
				2694	log = log + "warning: %s:" % (msg)
				2695
				2696	def error(self, msg):
				2697	global log
				2698	log = log + "error: %s:" % (msg)
				2699
				2700	def fatalError(self, msg):
				2701	global log
				2702	log = log + "fatalError: %s:" % (msg)
				2703
				2704	handler = callback()
				2705
				2706	ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(handler, "<foo", 4, "test.xml")
				2707	chunk = " url='tst'>b"
				2708	ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 0)
				2709	chunk = "ar</foo>"
				2710	ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 1)
				2711
Daniel Veillard	fcbfa2d	2002-02-21 17:54:27 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2712	reference = "startDocument:startElement foo {'url': 'tst'}:" + \
				2713	"characters: bar:endElement foo:endDocument:"
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2714	if log != reference:
				2715	print "Error got: %s" % log
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2716	print "Expected: %s" % reference</pre>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2717
				2718	<p>The key object in that test is the handler, it provides a number of entry
				2719	points which can be called by the parser as it makes progresses to indicate
				2720	the information set obtained. The full set of callback is larger than what
				2721	the callback class in that specific example implements (see the SAX
				2722	definition for a complete list). The wrapper will only call those supplied by
				2723	the object when activated. The startElement receives the names of the element
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2724	and a dictionary containing the attributes carried by this element.</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2725
				2726	<p>Also note that the reference string generated from the callback shows a
				2727	single character call even though the string "bar" is passed to the parser
				2728	from 2 different call to parseChunk()</p>
				2729
				2730	<h3>xpath.py:</h3>
				2731
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2732	<p>This is a basic test of XPath wrappers support</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2733	<pre>import libxml2
				2734
				2735	doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
				2736	ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext()
				2737	res = ctxt.xpathEval("//*")
				2738	if len(res) != 2:
				2739	print "xpath query: wrong node set size"
				2740	sys.exit(1)
				2741	if res[0].name != "doc" or res[1].name != "foo":
				2742	print "xpath query: wrong node set value"
				2743	sys.exit(1)
				2744	doc.freeDoc()
				2745	ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre>
				2746
				2747	<p>This test parses a file, then create an XPath context to evaluate XPath
				2748	expression on it. The xpathEval() method execute an XPath query and returns
				2749	the result mapped in a Python way. String and numbers are natively converted,
				2750	and node sets are returned as a tuple of libxml2 Python nodes wrappers. Like
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2751	the document, the XPath context need to be freed explicitly, also not that
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2752	the result of the XPath query may point back to the document tree and hence
				2753	the document must be freed after the result of the query is used.</p>
				2754
				2755	<h3>xpathext.py:</h3>
				2756
				2757	<p>This test shows how to extend the XPath engine with functions written in
				2758	python:</p>
				2759	<pre>import libxml2
				2760
				2761	def foo(ctx, x):
				2762	return x + 1
				2763
				2764	doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
				2765	ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext()
				2766	libxml2.registerXPathFunction(ctxt._o, "foo", None, foo)
				2767	res = ctxt.xpathEval("foo(1)")
				2768	if res != 2:
				2769	print "xpath extension failure"
				2770	doc.freeDoc()
				2771	ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre>
				2772
				2773	<p>Note how the extension function is registered with the context (but that
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2774	part is not yet finalized, this may change slightly in the future).</p>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2775
				2776	<h3>tstxpath.py:</h3>
				2777
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2778	<p>This test is similar to the previous one but shows how the extension
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2779	function can access the XPath evaluation context:</p>
				2780	<pre>def foo(ctx, x):
				2781	global called
				2782
				2783	#
				2784	# test that access to the XPath evaluation contexts
				2785	#
				2786	pctxt = libxml2.xpathParserContext(_obj=ctx)
				2787	ctxt = pctxt.context()
				2788	called = ctxt.function()
				2789	return x + 1</pre>
				2790
				2791	<p>All the interfaces around the XPath parser(or rather evaluation) context
				2792	are not finalized, but it should be sufficient to do contextual work at the
				2793	evaluation point.</p>
				2794
				2795	<h3>Memory debugging:</h3>
				2796
				2797	<p>last but not least, all tests starts with the following prologue:</p>
				2798	<pre>#memory debug specific
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2799	libxml2.debugMemory(1)</pre>
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2800
				2801	<p>and ends with the following epilogue:</p>
				2802	<pre>#memory debug specific
				2803	libxml2.cleanupParser()
				2804	if libxml2.debugMemory(1) == 0:
				2805	print "OK"
				2806	else:
				2807	print "Memory leak %d bytes" % (libxml2.debugMemory(1))
				2808	libxml2.dumpMemory()</pre>
				2809
				2810	<p>Those activate the memory debugging interface of libxml2 where all
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2811	allocated block in the library are tracked. The prologue then cleans up the
Daniel Veillard	6dbcaf8	2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2812	library state and checks that all allocated memory has been freed. If not it
				2813	calls dumpMemory() which saves that list in a <code>.memdump</code> file.</p>
Daniel Veillard	8268716	2001-01-22 15:32:01 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2814
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2815	<h2><a name="architecture">libxml2 architecture</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2816
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2817	<p>Libxml2 is made of multiple components; some of them are optional, and
				2818	most of the block interfaces are public. The main components are:</p>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2819	<ul>
				2820	<li>an Input/Output layer</li>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2821	<li>FTP and HTTP client layers (optional)</li>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2822	<li>an Internationalization layer managing the encodings support</li>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2823	<li>a URI module</li>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2824	<li>the XML parser and its basic SAX interface</li>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2825	<li>an HTML parser using the same SAX interface (optional)</li>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2826	<li>a SAX tree module to build an in-memory DOM representation</li>
				2827	<li>a tree module to manipulate the DOM representation</li>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2828	<li>a validation module using the DOM representation (optional)</li>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2829	<li>an XPath module for global lookup in a DOM representation
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2830	(optional)</li>
				2831	<li>a debug module (optional)</li>
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2832	</ul>
				2833
				2834	<p>Graphically this gives the following:</p>
				2835
				2836	<p><img src="libxml.gif" alt="a graphical view of the various"></p>
				2837
				2838	<p></p>
				2839
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2840	<h2><a name="tree">The tree output</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2841
				2842	<p>The parser returns a tree built during the document analysis. The value
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2843	returned is an <strong>xmlDocPtr</strong> (i.e., a pointer to an
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2844	<strong>xmlDoc</strong> structure). This structure contains information such
Daniel Veillard	306be99	2000-07-03 12:38:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2845	as the file name, the document type, and a <strong>children</strong> pointer
				2846	which is the root of the document (or more exactly the first child under the
				2847	root which is the document). The tree is made of <strong>xmlNode</strong>s,
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2848	chained in double-linked lists of siblings and with a children<->parent
Daniel Veillard	306be99	2000-07-03 12:38:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2849	relationship. An xmlNode can also carry properties (a chain of xmlAttr
				2850	structures). An attribute may have a value which is a list of TEXT or
				2851	ENTITY_REF nodes.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2852
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2853	<p>Here is an example (erroneous with respect to the XML spec since there
				2854	should be only one ELEMENT under the root):</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2855
				2856	<p><img src="structure.gif" alt=" structure.gif "></p>
				2857
				2858	<p>In the source package there is a small program (not installed by default)
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2859	called <strong>xmllint</strong> which parses XML files given as argument and
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2860	prints them back as parsed. This is useful for detecting errors both in XML
				2861	code and in the XML parser itself. It has an option <strong>--debug</strong>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2862	which prints the actual in-memory structure of the document; here is the
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2863	result with the <a href="#example">example</a> given before:</p>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2864	<pre>DOCUMENT
				2865	version=1.0
				2866	standalone=true
				2867	ELEMENT EXAMPLE
				2868	ATTRIBUTE prop1
				2869	TEXT
				2870	content=gnome is great
				2871	ATTRIBUTE prop2
				2872	ENTITY_REF
				2873	TEXT
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2874	content= linux too
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2875	ELEMENT head
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2876	ELEMENT title
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2877	TEXT
				2878	content=Welcome to Gnome
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2879	ELEMENT chapter
				2880	ELEMENT title
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2881	TEXT
				2882	content=The Linux adventure
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2883	ELEMENT p
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2884	TEXT
				2885	content=bla bla bla ...
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2886	ELEMENT image
				2887	ATTRIBUTE href
				2888	TEXT
				2889	content=linus.gif
				2890	ELEMENT p
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2891	TEXT
				2892	content=...</pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2893
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2894	<p>This should be useful for learning the internal representation model.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2895
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2896	<h2><a name="interface">The SAX interface</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2897
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2898	<p>Sometimes the DOM tree output is just too large to fit reasonably into
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2899	memory. In that case (and if you don't expect to save back the XML document
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2900	loaded using libxml), it's better to use the SAX interface of libxml. SAX is
				2901	a <strong>callback-based interface</strong> to the parser. Before parsing,
				2902	the application layer registers a customized set of callbacks which are
				2903	called by the library as it progresses through the XML input.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2904
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2905	<p>To get more detailed step-by-step guidance on using the SAX interface of
Daniel Veillard	4540be4	2000-08-19 16:40:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2906	libxml, see the <a
				2907	href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/xml-sax/xml-sax.html">nice
				2908	documentation</a>.written by <a href="mailto:james@daa.com.au">James
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2909	Henstridge</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2910
				2911	<p>You can debug the SAX behaviour by using the <strong>testSAX</strong>
				2912	program located in the gnome-xml module (it's usually not shipped in the
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2913	binary packages of libxml, but you can find it in the tar source
Daniel Veillard	402e8c8	2000-02-29 22:57:47 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2914	distribution). Here is the sequence of callbacks that would be reported by
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2915	testSAX when parsing the example XML document shown earlier:</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2916	<pre>SAX.setDocumentLocator()
				2917	SAX.startDocument()
				2918	SAX.getEntity(amp)
				2919	SAX.startElement(EXAMPLE, prop1='gnome is great', prop2='&amp; linux too')
				2920	SAX.characters( , 3)
				2921	SAX.startElement(head)
				2922	SAX.characters( , 4)
				2923	SAX.startElement(title)
				2924	SAX.characters(Welcome to Gnome, 16)
				2925	SAX.endElement(title)
				2926	SAX.characters( , 3)
				2927	SAX.endElement(head)
				2928	SAX.characters( , 3)
				2929	SAX.startElement(chapter)
				2930	SAX.characters( , 4)
				2931	SAX.startElement(title)
				2932	SAX.characters(The Linux adventure, 19)
				2933	SAX.endElement(title)
				2934	SAX.characters( , 4)
				2935	SAX.startElement(p)
				2936	SAX.characters(bla bla bla ..., 15)
				2937	SAX.endElement(p)
				2938	SAX.characters( , 4)
				2939	SAX.startElement(image, href='linus.gif')
				2940	SAX.endElement(image)
				2941	SAX.characters( , 4)
				2942	SAX.startElement(p)
				2943	SAX.characters(..., 3)
				2944	SAX.endElement(p)
				2945	SAX.characters( , 3)
				2946	SAX.endElement(chapter)
				2947	SAX.characters( , 1)
				2948	SAX.endElement(EXAMPLE)
				2949	SAX.endDocument()</pre>
				2950
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2951	<p>Most of the other interfaces of libxml2 are based on the DOM tree-building
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2952	facility, so nearly everything up to the end of this document presupposes the
				2953	use of the standard DOM tree build. Note that the DOM tree itself is built by
				2954	a set of registered default callbacks, without internal specific
				2955	interface.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2956
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2957	<h2><a name="Validation">Validation & DTDs</a></h2>
				2958
				2959	<p>Table of Content:</p>
				2960	<ol>
				2961	<li><a href="#General5">General overview</a></li>
				2962	<li><a href="#definition">The definition</a></li>
				2963	<li><a href="#Simple">Simple rules</a>
				2964	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2965	<li><a href="#reference">How to reference a DTD from a document</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2966	<li><a href="#Declaring">Declaring elements</a></li>
				2967	<li><a href="#Declaring1">Declaring attributes</a></li>
				2968	</ol>
				2969	</li>
				2970	<li><a href="#Some">Some examples</a></li>
				2971	<li><a href="#validate">How to validate</a></li>
				2972	<li><a href="#Other">Other resources</a></li>
				2973	</ol>
				2974
				2975	<h3><a name="General5">General overview</a></h3>
				2976
				2977	<p>Well what is validation and what is a DTD ?</p>
				2978
				2979	<p>DTD is the acronym for Document Type Definition. This is a description of
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2980	the content for a family of XML files. This is part of the XML 1.0
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2981	specification, and allows one to describe and verify that a given document
				2982	instance conforms to the set of rules detailing its structure and content.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2983
				2984	<p>Validation is the process of checking a document against a DTD (more
				2985	generally against a set of construction rules).</p>
				2986
				2987	<p>The validation process and building DTDs are the two most difficult parts
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2988	of the XML life cycle. Briefly a DTD defines all the possible elements to be
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2989	found within your document, what is the formal shape of your document tree
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2990	(by defining the allowed content of an element; either text, a regular
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2991	expression for the allowed list of children, or mixed content i.e. both text
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2992	and children). The DTD also defines the valid attributes for all elements and
				2993	the types of those attributes.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	2994
				2995	<h3><a name="definition1">The definition</a></h3>
				2996
				2997	<p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">W3C XML Recommendation</a> (<a
				2998	href="http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html">Tim Bray's annotated version of
				2999	Rev1</a>):</p>
				3000	<ul>
				3001	<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#elemdecls">Declaring
				3002	elements</a></li>
				3003	<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#attdecls">Declaring
				3004	attributes</a></li>
				3005	</ul>
				3006
				3007	<p>(unfortunately) all this is inherited from the SGML world, the syntax is
				3008	ancient...</p>
				3009
				3010	<h3><a name="Simple1">Simple rules</a></h3>
				3011
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3012	<p>Writing DTDs can be done in many ways. The rules to build them if you need
				3013	something permanent or something which can evolve over time can be radically
				3014	different. Really complex DTDs like DocBook ones are flexible but quite
				3015	harder to design. I will just focus on DTDs for a formats with a fixed simple
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3016	structure. It is just a set of basic rules, and definitely not exhaustive nor
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3017	usable for complex DTD design.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3018
				3019	<h4><a name="reference1">How to reference a DTD from a document</a>:</h4>
				3020
				3021	<p>Assuming the top element of the document is <code>spec</code> and the dtd
				3022	is placed in the file <code>mydtd</code> in the subdirectory
				3023	<code>dtds</code> of the directory from where the document were loaded:</p>
				3024
				3025	<p><code><!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "dtds/mydtd"></code></p>
				3026
				3027	<p>Notes:</p>
				3028	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3029	<li>The system string is actually an URI-Reference (as defined in <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3030	href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>) so you can use a
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3031	full URL string indicating the location of your DTD on the Web. This is a
				3032	really good thing to do if you want others to validate your document.</li>
				3033	<li>It is also possible to associate a <code>PUBLIC</code> identifier (a
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3034	magic string) so that the DTD is looked up in catalogs on the client side
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3035	without having to locate it on the web.</li>
				3036	<li>A DTD contains a set of element and attribute declarations, but they
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3037	don't define what the root of the document should be. This is explicitly
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3038	told to the parser/validator as the first element of the
				3039	<code>DOCTYPE</code> declaration.</li>
				3040	</ul>
				3041
				3042	<h4><a name="Declaring2">Declaring elements</a>:</h4>
				3043
				3044	<p>The following declares an element <code>spec</code>:</p>
				3045
				3046	<p><code><!ELEMENT spec (front, body, back?)></code></p>
				3047
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3048	<p>It also expresses that the spec element contains one <code>front</code>,
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3049	one <code>body</code> and one optional <code>back</code> children elements in
				3050	this order. The declaration of one element of the structure and its content
				3051	are done in a single declaration. Similarly the following declares
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3052	<code>div1</code> elements:</p>
				3053
Daniel Veillard	5173727	2002-01-23 23:10:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3054	<p><code><!ELEMENT div1 (head, (p \| list \| note)*, div2?)></code></p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3055
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3056	<p>which means div1 contains one <code>head</code> then a series of optional
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3057	<code>p</code>, <code>list</code>s and <code>note</code>s and then an
				3058	optional <code>div2</code>. And last but not least an element can contain
				3059	text:</p>
				3060
				3061	<p><code><!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)></code></p>
				3062
				3063	<p><code>b</code> contains text or being of mixed content (text and elements
				3064	in no particular order):</p>
				3065
				3066	<p><code><!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA\|a\|ul\|b\|i\|em)*></code></p>
				3067
				3068	<p><code>p </code>can contain text or <code>a</code>, <code>ul</code>,
				3069	<code>b</code>, <code>i </code>or <code>em</code> elements in no particular
				3070	order.</p>
				3071
				3072	<h4><a name="Declaring1">Declaring attributes</a>:</h4>
				3073
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3074	<p>Again the attributes declaration includes their content definition:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3075
				3076	<p><code><!ATTLIST termdef name CDATA #IMPLIED></code></p>
				3077
				3078	<p>means that the element <code>termdef</code> can have a <code>name</code>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3079	attribute containing text (<code>CDATA</code>) and which is optional
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3080	(<code>#IMPLIED</code>). The attribute value can also be defined within a
				3081	set:</p>
				3082
				3083	<p><code><!ATTLIST list type (bullets\|ordered\|glossary)
				3084	"ordered"></code></p>
				3085
				3086	<p>means <code>list</code> element have a <code>type</code> attribute with 3
				3087	allowed values "bullets", "ordered" or "glossary" and which default to
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3088	"ordered" if the attribute is not explicitly specified.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3089
				3090	<p>The content type of an attribute can be text (<code>CDATA</code>),
				3091	anchor/reference/references
				3092	(<code>ID</code>/<code>IDREF</code>/<code>IDREFS</code>), entity(ies)
				3093	(<code>ENTITY</code>/<code>ENTITIES</code>) or name(s)
				3094	(<code>NMTOKEN</code>/<code>NMTOKENS</code>). The following defines that a
				3095	<code>chapter</code> element can have an optional <code>id</code> attribute
				3096	of type <code>ID</code>, usable for reference from attribute of type
				3097	IDREF:</p>
				3098
				3099	<p><code><!ATTLIST chapter id ID #IMPLIED></code></p>
				3100
				3101	<p>The last value of an attribute definition can be <code>#REQUIRED
				3102	</code>meaning that the attribute has to be given, <code>#IMPLIED</code>
				3103	meaning that it is optional, or the default value (possibly prefixed by
				3104	<code>#FIXED</code> if it is the only allowed).</p>
				3105
				3106	<p>Notes:</p>
				3107	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3108	<li>Usually the attributes pertaining to a given element are declared in a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3109	single expression, but it is just a convention adopted by a lot of DTD
				3110	writers:
				3111	<pre><!ATTLIST termdef
				3112	id ID #REQUIRED
				3113	name CDATA #IMPLIED></pre>
				3114	<p>The previous construct defines both <code>id</code> and
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3115	<code>name</code> attributes for the element <code>termdef</code>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3116	</li>
				3117	</ul>
				3118
				3119	<h3><a name="Some1">Some examples</a></h3>
				3120
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3121	<p>The directory <code>test/valid/dtds/</code> in the libxml2 distribution
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3122	contains some complex DTD examples. The example in the file
				3123	<code>test/valid/dia.xml</code> shows an XML file where the simple DTD is
				3124	directly included within the document.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3125
				3126	<h3><a name="validate1">How to validate</a></h3>
				3127
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3128	<p>The simplest way is to use the xmllint program included with libxml. The
				3129	<code>--valid</code> option turns-on validation of the files given as input.
				3130	For example the following validates a copy of the first revision of the XML
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3131	1.0 specification:</p>
				3132
				3133	<p><code>xmllint --valid --noout test/valid/REC-xml-19980210.xml</code></p>
				3134
Daniel Veillard	0b28e88	2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3135	<p>the -- noout is used to disable output of the resulting tree.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3136
Daniel Veillard	42766c0	2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3137	<p>The <code>--dtdvalid dtd</code> allows validation of the document(s)
				3138	against a given DTD.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3139
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3140	<p>Libxml2 exports an API to handle DTDs and validation, check the <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3141	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html">associated
				3142	description</a>.</p>
				3143
				3144	<h3><a name="Other1">Other resources</a></h3>
				3145
				3146	<p>DTDs are as old as SGML. So there may be a number of examples on-line, I
				3147	will just list one for now, others pointers welcome:</p>
				3148	<ul>
				3149	<li><a href="http://www.xml101.com:8081/dtd/">XML-101 DTD</a></li>
				3150	</ul>
				3151
				3152	<p>I suggest looking at the examples found under test/valid/dtd and any of
				3153	the large number of books available on XML. The dia example in test/valid
				3154	should be both simple and complete enough to allow you to build your own.</p>
				3155
				3156	<p></p>
				3157
				3158	<h2><a name="Memory">Memory Management</a></h2>
				3159
				3160	<p>Table of Content:</p>
				3161	<ol>
				3162	<li><a href="#General3">General overview</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3163	<li><a href="#setting">Setting libxml2 set of memory routines</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3164	<li><a href="#cleanup">Cleaning up after parsing</a></li>
				3165	<li><a href="#Debugging">Debugging routines</a></li>
				3166	<li><a href="#General4">General memory requirements</a></li>
				3167	</ol>
				3168
				3169	<h3><a name="General3">General overview</a></h3>
				3170
				3171	<p>The module <code><a
				3172	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlmemory.h</a></code>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3173	provides the interfaces to the libxml2 memory system:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3174	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3175	<li>libxml2 does not use the libc memory allocator directly but xmlFree(),
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3176	xmlMalloc() and xmlRealloc()</li>
				3177	<li>those routines can be reallocated to a specific set of routine, by
				3178	default the libc ones i.e. free(), malloc() and realloc()</li>
				3179	<li>the xmlmemory.c module includes a set of debugging routine</li>
				3180	</ul>
				3181
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3182	<h3><a name="setting">Setting libxml2 set of memory routines</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3183
				3184	<p>It is sometimes useful to not use the default memory allocator, either for
				3185	debugging, analysis or to implement a specific behaviour on memory management
				3186	(like on embedded systems). Two function calls are available to do so:</p>
				3187	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3188	<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlMemGet
				3189	()</a> which return the current set of functions in use by the parser</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3190	<li><a
				3191	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlMemSetup()</a>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3192	which allow to set up a new set of memory allocation functions</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3193	</ul>
				3194
				3195	<p>Of course a call to xmlMemSetup() should probably be done before calling
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3196	any other libxml2 routines (unless you are sure your allocations routines are
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3197	compatibles).</p>
				3198
				3199	<h3><a name="cleanup">Cleaning up after parsing</a></h3>
				3200
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3201	<p>Libxml2 is not stateless, there is a few set of memory structures needing
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3202	allocation before the parser is fully functional (some encoding structures
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3203	for example). This also mean that once parsing is finished there is a tiny
				3204	amount of memory (a few hundred bytes) which can be recollected if you don't
				3205	reuse the parser immediately:</p>
				3206	<ul>
				3207	<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlCleanupParser
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3208	()</a> is a centralized routine to free the parsing states. Note that it
				3209	won't deallocate any produced tree if any (use the xmlFreeDoc() and
				3210	related routines for this).</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3211	<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlInitParser
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3212	()</a> is the dual routine allowing to preallocate the parsing state
				3213	which can be useful for example to avoid initialization reentrancy
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3214	problems when using libxml2 in multithreaded applications</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3215	</ul>
				3216
				3217	<p>Generally xmlCleanupParser() is safe, if needed the state will be rebuild
				3218	at the next invocation of parser routines, but be careful of the consequences
				3219	in multithreaded applications.</p>
				3220
				3221	<h3><a name="Debugging">Debugging routines</a></h3>
				3222
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3223	<p>When configured using --with-mem-debug flag (off by default), libxml2 uses
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3224	a set of memory allocation debugging routines keeping track of all allocated
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3225	blocks and the location in the code where the routine was called. A couple of
				3226	other debugging routines allow to dump the memory allocated infos to a file
				3227	or call a specific routine when a given block number is allocated:</p>
				3228	<ul>
				3229	<li><a
				3230	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlMallocLoc()</a>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3231	<a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3232	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlReallocLoc()</a>
				3233	and <a
				3234	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlMemStrdupLoc()</a>
				3235	are the memory debugging replacement allocation routines</li>
				3236	<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">xmlMemoryDump
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3237	()</a> dumps all the informations about the allocated memory block lefts
				3238	in the <code>.memdump</code> file</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3239	</ul>
				3240
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3241	<p>When developing libxml2 memory debug is enabled, the tests programs call
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3242	xmlMemoryDump () and the "make test" regression tests will check for any
				3243	memory leak during the full regression test sequence, this helps a lot
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3244	ensuring that libxml2 does not leak memory and bullet proof memory
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3245	allocations use (some libc implementations are known to be far too permissive
				3246	resulting in major portability problems!).</p>
				3247
				3248	<p>If the .memdump reports a leak, it displays the allocation function and
				3249	also tries to give some informations about the content and structure of the
				3250	allocated blocks left. This is sufficient in most cases to find the culprit,
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3251	but not always. Assuming the allocation problem is reproducible, it is
				3252	possible to find more easily:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3253	<ol>
				3254	<li>write down the block number xxxx not allocated</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3255	<li>export the environment variable XML_MEM_BREAKPOINT=xxxx , the easiest
Daniel Veillard	7579482	2002-04-11 16:24:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3256	when using GDB is to simply give the command
				3257	<p><code>set environment XML_MEM_BREAKPOINT xxxx</code></p>
				3258	<p>before running the program.</p>
				3259	</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3260	<li>run the program under a debugger and set a breakpoint on
				3261	xmlMallocBreakpoint() a specific function called when this precise block
				3262	is allocated</li>
				3263	<li>when the breakpoint is reached you can then do a fine analysis of the
				3264	allocation an step to see the condition resulting in the missing
				3265	deallocation.</li>
				3266	</ol>
				3267
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3268	<p>I used to use a commercial tool to debug libxml2 memory problems but after
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3269	noticing that it was not detecting memory leaks that simple mechanism was
Daniel Veillard	7579482	2002-04-11 16:24:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3270	used and proved extremely efficient until now. Lately I have also used <a
				3271	href="http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/">valgrind</a> with quite some
				3272	success, it is tied to the i386 architecture since it works by emulating the
				3273	processor and instruction set, it is slow but extremely efficient, i.e. it
				3274	spot memory usage errors in a very precise way.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3275
				3276	<h3><a name="General4">General memory requirements</a></h3>
				3277
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3278	<p>How much libxml2 memory require ? It's hard to tell in average it depends
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3279	of a number of things:</p>
				3280	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3281	<li>the parser itself should work in a fixed amount of memory, except for
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3282	information maintained about the stacks of names and entities locations.
				3283	The I/O and encoding handlers will probably account for a few KBytes.
				3284	This is true for both the XML and HTML parser (though the HTML parser
				3285	need more state).</li>
				3286	<li>If you are generating the DOM tree then memory requirements will grow
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3287	nearly linear with the size of the data. In general for a balanced
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3288	textual document the internal memory requirement is about 4 times the
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3289	size of the UTF8 serialization of this document (example the XML-1.0
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3290	recommendation is a bit more of 150KBytes and takes 650KBytes of main
				3291	memory when parsed). Validation will add a amount of memory required for
				3292	maintaining the external Dtd state which should be linear with the
				3293	complexity of the content model defined by the Dtd</li>
Daniel Veillard	ce192eb	2003-04-16 15:58:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3294	<li>If you need to work with fixed memory requirements or don't need the
				3295	full DOM tree then using the <a href="xmlreader.html">xmlReader
				3296	interface</a> is probably the best way to proceed, it still allows to
				3297	validate or operate on subset of the tree if needed.</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3298	<li>If you don't care about the advanced features of libxml2 like
Daniel Veillard	ce192eb	2003-04-16 15:58:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3299	validation, DOM, XPath or XPointer, don't use entities, need to work with
				3300	fixed memory requirements, and try to get the fastest parsing possible
				3301	then the SAX interface should be used, but it has known restrictions.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3302	</ul>
				3303
				3304	<p></p>
				3305
				3306	<h2><a name="Encodings">Encodings support</a></h2>
				3307
Daniel Veillard	e5d68de	2005-03-10 15:03:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3308	<p>If you are not really familiar with Internationalization (usual shortcut
				3309	is I18N) , Unicode, characters and glyphs, I suggest you read a <a
				3310	href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode">presentation</a>
				3311	by Tim Bray on Unicode and why you should care about it.</p>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3312
Daniel Veillard	e5d68de	2005-03-10 15:03:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3313	<p>If you don't understand why <b>it does not make sense to have a string
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3314	without knowing what encoding it uses</b>, then as Joel Spolsky said <a
				3315	href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">please do not
				3316	write another line of code until you finish reading that article.</a>. It is
				3317	a prerequisite to understand this page, and avoid a lot of problems with
				3318	libxml2, XML or text processing in general.</p>
Daniel Veillard	e5d68de	2005-03-10 15:03:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3319
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3320	<p>Table of Content:</p>
				3321	<ol>
				3322	<li><a href="encoding.html#What">What does internationalization support
				3323	mean ?</a></li>
				3324	<li><a href="encoding.html#internal">The internal encoding, how and
				3325	why</a></li>
				3326	<li><a href="encoding.html#implemente">How is it implemented ?</a></li>
				3327	<li><a href="encoding.html#Default">Default supported encodings</a></li>
				3328	<li><a href="encoding.html#extend">How to extend the existing
				3329	support</a></li>
				3330	</ol>
				3331
				3332	<h3><a name="What">What does internationalization support mean ?</a></h3>
				3333
				3334	<p>XML was designed from the start to allow the support of any character set
				3335	by using Unicode. Any conformant XML parser has to support the UTF-8 and
				3336	UTF-16 default encodings which can both express the full unicode ranges. UTF8
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3337	is a variable length encoding whose greatest points are to reuse the same
				3338	encoding for ASCII and to save space for Western encodings, but it is a bit
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3339	more complex to handle in practice. UTF-16 use 2 bytes per character (and
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3340	sometimes combines two pairs), it makes implementation easier, but looks a
				3341	bit overkill for Western languages encoding. Moreover the XML specification
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3342	allows the document to be encoded in other encodings at the condition that
				3343	they are clearly labeled as such. For example the following is a wellformed
				3344	XML document encoded in ISO-8859-1 and using accentuated letters that we
				3345	French like for both markup and content:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3346	<pre><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
				3347	<très>là</très></pre>
				3348
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3349	<p>Having internationalization support in libxml2 means the following:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3350	<ul>
				3351	<li>the document is properly parsed</li>
				3352	<li>informations about it's encoding are saved</li>
				3353	<li>it can be modified</li>
				3354	<li>it can be saved in its original encoding</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3355	<li>it can also be saved in another encoding supported by libxml2 (for
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3356	example straight UTF8 or even an ASCII form)</li>
				3357	</ul>
				3358
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3359	<p>Another very important point is that the whole libxml2 API, with the
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3360	exception of a few routines to read with a specific encoding or save to a
				3361	specific encoding, is completely agnostic about the original encoding of the
				3362	document.</p>
				3363
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3364	<p>It should be noted too that the HTML parser embedded in libxml2 now obey
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3365	the same rules too, the following document will be (as of 2.2.2) handled in
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3366	an internationalized fashion by libxml2 too:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3367	<pre><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
				3368	"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
				3369	<html lang="fr">
				3370	<head>
				3371	<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
				3372	</head>
				3373	<body>
				3374	<p>W3C crée des standards pour le Web.</body>
				3375	</html></pre>
				3376
				3377	<h3><a name="internal">The internal encoding, how and why</a></h3>
				3378
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3379	<p>One of the core decisions was to force all documents to be converted to a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3380	default internal encoding, and that encoding to be UTF-8, here are the
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3381	rationales for those choices:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3382	<ul>
				3383	<li>keeping the native encoding in the internal form would force the libxml
				3384	users (or the code associated) to be fully aware of the encoding of the
				3385	original document, for examples when adding a text node to a document,
				3386	the content would have to be provided in the document encoding, i.e. the
				3387	client code would have to check it before hand, make sure it's conformant
				3388	to the encoding, etc ... Very hard in practice, though in some specific
				3389	cases this may make sense.</li>
				3390	<li>the second decision was which encoding. From the XML spec only UTF8 and
				3391	UTF16 really makes sense as being the two only encodings for which there
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3392	is mandatory support. UCS-4 (32 bits fixed size encoding) could be
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3393	considered an intelligent choice too since it's a direct Unicode mapping
				3394	support. I selected UTF-8 on the basis of efficiency and compatibility
				3395	with surrounding software:
				3396	<ul>
				3397	<li>UTF-8 while a bit more complex to convert from/to (i.e. slightly
				3398	more costly to import and export CPU wise) is also far more compact
				3399	than UTF-16 (and UCS-4) for a majority of the documents I see it used
				3400	for right now (RPM RDF catalogs, advogato data, various configuration
				3401	file formats, etc.) and the key point for today's computer
				3402	architecture is efficient uses of caches. If one nearly double the
				3403	memory requirement to store the same amount of data, this will trash
				3404	caches (main memory/external caches/internal caches) and my take is
				3405	that this harms the system far more than the CPU requirements needed
				3406	for the conversion to UTF-8</li>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3407	<li>Most of libxml2 version 1 users were using it with straight ASCII
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3408	most of the time, doing the conversion with an internal encoding
				3409	requiring all their code to be rewritten was a serious show-stopper
				3410	for using UTF-16 or UCS-4.</li>
				3411	<li>UTF-8 is being used as the de-facto internal encoding standard for
				3412	related code like the <a href="http://www.pango.org/">pango</a>
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3413	upcoming Gnome text widget, and a lot of Unix code (yet another place
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3414	where Unix programmer base takes a different approach from Microsoft
				3415	- they are using UTF-16)</li>
				3416	</ul>
				3417	</li>
				3418	</ul>
				3419
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3420	<p>What does this mean in practice for the libxml2 user:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3421	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3422	<li>xmlChar, the libxml2 data type is a byte, those bytes must be assembled
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3423	as UTF-8 valid strings. The proper way to terminate an xmlChar * string
				3424	is simply to append 0 byte, as usual.</li>
				3425	<li>One just need to make sure that when using chars outside the ASCII set,
				3426	the values has been properly converted to UTF-8</li>
				3427	</ul>
				3428
				3429	<h3><a name="implemente">How is it implemented ?</a></h3>
				3430
				3431	<p>Let's describe how all this works within libxml, basically the I18N
				3432	(internationalization) support get triggered only during I/O operation, i.e.
				3433	when reading a document or saving one. Let's look first at the reading
				3434	sequence:</p>
				3435	<ol>
				3436	<li>when a document is processed, we usually don't know the encoding, a
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3437	simple heuristic allows to detect UTF-16 and UCS-4 from encodings where
				3438	the ASCII range (0-0x7F) maps with ASCII</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3439	<li>the xml declaration if available is parsed, including the encoding
				3440	declaration. At that point, if the autodetected encoding is different
				3441	from the one declared a call to xmlSwitchEncoding() is issued.</li>
				3442	<li>If there is no encoding declaration, then the input has to be in either
				3443	UTF-8 or UTF-16, if it is not then at some point when processing the
				3444	input, the converter/checker of UTF-8 form will raise an encoding error.
				3445	You may end-up with a garbled document, or no document at all ! Example:
				3446	<pre>~/XML -> ./xmllint err.xml
				3447	err.xml:1: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
				3448	<très>là</très>
				3449	^
				3450	err.xml:1: error: Bytes: 0xE8 0x73 0x3E 0x6C
				3451	<très>là</très>
				3452	^</pre>
				3453	</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3454	<li>xmlSwitchEncoding() does an encoding name lookup, canonicalize it, and
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3455	then search the default registered encoding converters for that encoding.
				3456	If it's not within the default set and iconv() support has been compiled
				3457	it, it will ask iconv for such an encoder. If this fails then the parser
				3458	will report an error and stops processing:
				3459	<pre>~/XML -> ./xmllint err2.xml
				3460	err2.xml:1: error: Unsupported encoding UnsupportedEnc
				3461	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UnsupportedEnc"?>
				3462	^</pre>
				3463	</li>
Daniel Veillard	46c5c1d	2002-05-20 07:15:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3464	<li>From that point the encoder processes progressively the input (it is
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3465	plugged as a front-end to the I/O module) for that entity. It captures
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3466	and converts on-the-fly the document to be parsed to UTF-8. The parser
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3467	itself just does UTF-8 checking of this input and process it
				3468	transparently. The only difference is that the encoding information has
				3469	been added to the parsing context (more precisely to the input
				3470	corresponding to this entity).</li>
				3471	<li>The result (when using DOM) is an internal form completely in UTF-8
				3472	with just an encoding information on the document node.</li>
				3473	</ol>
				3474
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3475	<p>Ok then what happens when saving the document (assuming you
				3476	collected/built an xmlDoc DOM like structure) ? It depends on the function
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3477	called, xmlSaveFile() will just try to save in the original encoding, while
				3478	xmlSaveFileTo() and xmlSaveFileEnc() can optionally save to a given
				3479	encoding:</p>
				3480	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3481	<li>if no encoding is given, libxml2 will look for an encoding value
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3482	associated to the document and if it exists will try to save to that
				3483	encoding,
				3484	<p>otherwise everything is written in the internal form, i.e. UTF-8</p>
				3485	</li>
				3486	<li>so if an encoding was specified, either at the API level or on the
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3487	document, libxml2 will again canonicalize the encoding name, lookup for a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3488	converter in the registered set or through iconv. If not found the
				3489	function will return an error code</li>
				3490	<li>the converter is placed before the I/O buffer layer, as another kind of
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3491	buffer, then libxml2 will simply push the UTF-8 serialization to through
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3492	that buffer, which will then progressively be converted and pushed onto
				3493	the I/O layer.</li>
				3494	<li>It is possible that the converter code fails on some input, for example
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3495	trying to push an UTF-8 encoded Chinese character through the UTF-8 to
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3496	ISO-8859-1 converter won't work. Since the encoders are progressive they
				3497	will just report the error and the number of bytes converted, at that
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3498	point libxml2 will decode the offending character, remove it from the
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3499	buffer and replace it with the associated charRef encoding &#123; and
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3500	resume the conversion. This guarantees that any document will be saved
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3501	without losses (except for markup names where this is not legal, this is
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3502	a problem in the current version, in practice avoid using non-ascii
Daniel Veillard	189f46b	2004-01-25 21:03:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3503	characters for tag or attribute names). A special "ascii" encoding name
				3504	is used to save documents to a pure ascii form can be used when
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3505	portability is really crucial</li>
				3506	</ol>
				3507
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3508	<p>Here are a few examples based on the same test document:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3509	<pre>~/XML -> ./xmllint isolat1
				3510	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
				3511	<très>là</très>
				3512	~/XML -> ./xmllint --encode UTF-8 isolat1
				3513	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3514	<trÃ¨s>lÃ  </trÃ¨s>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3515	~/XML -> </pre>
				3516
				3517	<p>The same processing is applied (and reuse most of the code) for HTML I18N
				3518	processing. Looking up and modifying the content encoding is a bit more
				3519	difficult since it is located in a <meta> tag under the <head>,
				3520	so a couple of functions htmlGetMetaEncoding() and htmlSetMetaEncoding() have
				3521	been provided. The parser also attempts to switch encoding on the fly when
				3522	detecting such a tag on input. Except for that the processing is the same
				3523	(and again reuses the same code).</p>
				3524
				3525	<h3><a name="Default">Default supported encodings</a></h3>
				3526
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3527	<p>libxml2 has a set of default converters for the following encodings
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3528	(located in encoding.c):</p>
				3529	<ol>
				3530	<li>UTF-8 is supported by default (null handlers)</li>
				3531	<li>UTF-16, both little and big endian</li>
				3532	<li>ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) covering most western languages</li>
				3533	<li>ASCII, useful mostly for saving</li>
				3534	<li>HTML, a specific handler for the conversion of UTF-8 to ASCII with HTML
				3535	predefined entities like &copy; for the Copyright sign.</li>
				3536	</ol>
				3537
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3538	<p>More over when compiled on an Unix platform with iconv support the full
				3539	set of encodings supported by iconv can be instantly be used by libxml. On a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3540	linux machine with glibc-2.1 the list of supported encodings and aliases fill
				3541	3 full pages, and include UCS-4, the full set of ISO-Latin encodings, and the
				3542	various Japanese ones.</p>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3543
Daniel Veillard	fdba0de	2005-09-16 08:19:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3544	<p>To convert from the UTF-8 values returned from the API to another encoding
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3545	then it is possible to use the function provided from <a
				3546	href="html/libxml-encoding.html">the encoding module</a> like <a
				3547	href="html/libxml-encoding.html#UTF8Toisolat1">UTF8Toisolat1</a>, or use the
				3548	POSIX <a
				3549	href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html">iconv()</a>
				3550	API directly.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3551
				3552	<h4>Encoding aliases</h4>
				3553
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3554	<p>From 2.2.3, libxml2 has support to register encoding names aliases. The
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3555	goal is to be able to parse document whose encoding is supported but where
				3556	the name differs (for example from the default set of names accepted by
				3557	iconv). The following functions allow to register and handle new aliases for
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3558	existing encodings. Once registered libxml2 will automatically lookup the
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3559	aliases when handling a document:</p>
				3560	<ul>
				3561	<li>int xmlAddEncodingAlias(const char name, const char alias);</li>
				3562	<li>int xmlDelEncodingAlias(const char *alias);</li>
				3563	<li>const char * xmlGetEncodingAlias(const char *alias);</li>
				3564	<li>void xmlCleanupEncodingAliases(void);</li>
				3565	</ul>
				3566
				3567	<h3><a name="extend">How to extend the existing support</a></h3>
				3568
				3569	<p>Well adding support for new encoding, or overriding one of the encoders
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3570	(assuming it is buggy) should not be hard, just write input and output
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3571	conversion routines to/from UTF-8, and register them using
				3572	xmlNewCharEncodingHandler(name, xxxToUTF8, UTF8Toxxx), and they will be
				3573	called automatically if the parser(s) encounter such an encoding name
				3574	(register it uppercase, this will help). The description of the encoders,
				3575	their arguments and expected return values are described in the encoding.h
				3576	header.</p>
				3577
				3578	<p>A quick note on the topic of subverting the parser to use a different
				3579	internal encoding than UTF-8, in some case people will absolutely want to
				3580	keep the internal encoding different, I think it's still possible (but the
				3581	encoding must be compliant with ASCII on the same subrange) though I didn't
				3582	tried it. The key is to override the default conversion routines (by
				3583	registering null encoders/decoders for your charsets), and bypass the UTF-8
				3584	checking of the parser by setting the parser context charset
				3585	(ctxt->charset) to something different than XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8, but
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3586	there is no guarantee that this will work. You may also have some troubles
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3587	saving back.</p>
				3588
				3589	<p>Basically proper I18N support is important, this requires at least
				3590	libxml-2.0.0, but a lot of features and corrections are really available only
				3591	starting 2.2.</p>
				3592
				3593	<h2><a name="IO">I/O Interfaces</a></h2>
				3594
				3595	<p>Table of Content:</p>
				3596	<ol>
				3597	<li><a href="#General1">General overview</a></li>
				3598	<li><a href="#basic">The basic buffer type</a></li>
				3599	<li><a href="#Input">Input I/O handlers</a></li>
				3600	<li><a href="#Output">Output I/O handlers</a></li>
				3601	<li><a href="#entities">The entities loader</a></li>
				3602	<li><a href="#Example2">Example of customized I/O</a></li>
				3603	</ol>
				3604
				3605	<h3><a name="General1">General overview</a></h3>
				3606
				3607	<p>The module <code><a
				3608	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlio.html">xmlIO.h</a></code> provides
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3609	the interfaces to the libxml2 I/O system. This consists of 4 main parts:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3610	<ul>
				3611	<li>Entities loader, this is a routine which tries to fetch the entities
				3612	(files) based on their PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers. The default loader
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3613	don't look at the public identifier since libxml2 do not maintain a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3614	catalog. You can redefine you own entity loader by using
				3615	<code>xmlGetExternalEntityLoader()</code> and
Daniel Veillard	9c46682	2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3616	<code>xmlSetExternalEntityLoader()</code>. <a href="#entities">Check the
				3617	example</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3618	<li>Input I/O buffers which are a commodity structure used by the parser(s)
				3619	input layer to handle fetching the informations to feed the parser. This
				3620	provides buffering and is also a placeholder where the encoding
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3621	converters to UTF8 are piggy-backed.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3622	<li>Output I/O buffers are similar to the Input ones and fulfill similar
				3623	task but when generating a serialization from a tree.</li>
				3624	<li>A mechanism to register sets of I/O callbacks and associate them with
				3625	specific naming schemes like the protocol part of the URIs.
				3626	<p>This affect the default I/O operations and allows to use specific I/O
				3627	handlers for certain names.</p>
				3628	</li>
				3629	</ul>
				3630
				3631	<p>The general mechanism used when loading http://rpmfind.net/xml.html for
				3632	example in the HTML parser is the following:</p>
				3633	<ol>
				3634	<li>The default entity loader calls <code>xmlNewInputFromFile()</code> with
				3635	the parsing context and the URI string.</li>
				3636	<li>the URI string is checked against the existing registered handlers
				3637	using their match() callback function, if the HTTP module was compiled
				3638	in, it is registered and its match() function will succeeds</li>
				3639	<li>the open() function of the handler is called and if successful will
				3640	return an I/O Input buffer</li>
				3641	<li>the parser will the start reading from this buffer and progressively
				3642	fetch information from the resource, calling the read() function of the
				3643	handler until the resource is exhausted</li>
				3644	<li>if an encoding change is detected it will be installed on the input
				3645	buffer, providing buffering and efficient use of the conversion
				3646	routines</li>
				3647	<li>once the parser has finished, the close() function of the handler is
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3648	called once and the Input buffer and associated resources are
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3649	deallocated.</li>
				3650	</ol>
				3651
				3652	<p>The user defined callbacks are checked first to allow overriding of the
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3653	default libxml2 I/O routines.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3654
				3655	<h3><a name="basic">The basic buffer type</a></h3>
				3656
				3657	<p>All the buffer manipulation handling is done using the
				3658	<code>xmlBuffer</code> type define in <code><a
				3659	href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html">tree.h</a> </code>which is a
				3660	resizable memory buffer. The buffer allocation strategy can be selected to be
				3661	either best-fit or use an exponential doubling one (CPU vs. memory use
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3662	trade-off). The values are <code>XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_EXACT</code> and
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3663	<code>XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_DOUBLEIT</code>, and can be set individually or on a
				3664	system wide basis using <code>xmlBufferSetAllocationScheme()</code>. A number
				3665	of functions allows to manipulate buffers with names starting with the
				3666	<code>xmlBuffer...</code> prefix.</p>
				3667
				3668	<h3><a name="Input">Input I/O handlers</a></h3>
				3669
				3670	<p>An Input I/O handler is a simple structure
				3671	<code>xmlParserInputBuffer</code> containing a context associated to the
				3672	resource (file descriptor, or pointer to a protocol handler), the read() and
				3673	close() callbacks to use and an xmlBuffer. And extra xmlBuffer and a charset
				3674	encoding handler are also present to support charset conversion when
				3675	needed.</p>
				3676
				3677	<h3><a name="Output">Output I/O handlers</a></h3>
				3678
				3679	<p>An Output handler <code>xmlOutputBuffer</code> is completely similar to an
				3680	Input one except the callbacks are write() and close().</p>
				3681
				3682	<h3><a name="entities">The entities loader</a></h3>
				3683
				3684	<p>The entity loader resolves requests for new entities and create inputs for
				3685	the parser. Creating an input from a filename or an URI string is done
				3686	through the xmlNewInputFromFile() routine. The default entity loader do not
				3687	handle the PUBLIC identifier associated with an entity (if any). So it just
				3688	calls xmlNewInputFromFile() with the SYSTEM identifier (which is mandatory in
				3689	XML).</p>
				3690
				3691	<p>If you want to hook up a catalog mechanism then you simply need to
				3692	override the default entity loader, here is an example:</p>
				3693	<pre>#include <libxml/xmlIO.h>
				3694
				3695	xmlExternalEntityLoader defaultLoader = NULL;
				3696
				3697	xmlParserInputPtr
				3698	xmlMyExternalEntityLoader(const char URL, const char ID,
				3699	xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) {
				3700	xmlParserInputPtr ret;
				3701	const char *fileID = NULL;
				3702	/* lookup for the fileID depending on ID */
				3703
				3704	ret = xmlNewInputFromFile(ctxt, fileID);
				3705	if (ret != NULL)
				3706	return(ret);
				3707	if (defaultLoader != NULL)
				3708	ret = defaultLoader(URL, ID, ctxt);
				3709	return(ret);
				3710	}
				3711
				3712	int main(..) {
				3713	...
				3714
				3715	/*
				3716	* Install our own entity loader
				3717	*/
				3718	defaultLoader = xmlGetExternalEntityLoader();
				3719	xmlSetExternalEntityLoader(xmlMyExternalEntityLoader);
				3720
				3721	...
				3722	}</pre>
				3723
				3724	<h3><a name="Example2">Example of customized I/O</a></h3>
				3725
				3726	<p>This example come from <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/0708.html">a
				3727	real use case</a>, xmlDocDump() closes the FILE * passed by the application
				3728	and this was a problem. The <a
				3729	href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/0711.html">solution</a> was to redefine a
				3730	new output handler with the closing call deactivated:</p>
				3731	<ol>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3732	<li>First define a new I/O output allocator where the output don't close
				3733	the file:
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3734	<pre>xmlOutputBufferPtr
				3735	xmlOutputBufferCreateOwn(FILE *file, xmlCharEncodingHandlerPtr encoder) {
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3736	xmlOutputBufferPtr ret;
				3737
				3738	if (xmlOutputCallbackInitialized == 0)
				3739	xmlRegisterDefaultOutputCallbacks();
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3740
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	3741	if (file == NULL) return(NULL);
				3742	ret = xmlAllocOutputBuffer(encoder);
				3743	if (ret != NULL) {
				3744	ret->context = file;
				3745	ret->writecallback = xmlFileWrite;
				3746	ret->closecallback = NULL; /* No close callback */
				3747	}
				3748	return(ret);
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3749	} </pre>
				3750	</li>
				3751	<li>And then use it to save the document:
				3752	<pre>FILE *f;
				3753	xmlOutputBufferPtr output;
				3754	xmlDocPtr doc;
				3755	int res;
				3756
				3757	f = ...
				3758	doc = ....
				3759
				3760	output = xmlOutputBufferCreateOwn(f, NULL);
				3761	res = xmlSaveFileTo(output, doc, NULL);
				3762	</pre>
				3763	</li>
				3764	</ol>
				3765
				3766	<h2><a name="Catalog">Catalog support</a></h2>
				3767
				3768	<p>Table of Content:</p>
				3769	<ol>
				3770	<li><a href="General2">General overview</a></li>
				3771	<li><a href="#definition">The definition</a></li>
				3772	<li><a href="#Simple">Using catalogs</a></li>
				3773	<li><a href="#Some">Some examples</a></li>
				3774	<li><a href="#reference">How to tune catalog usage</a></li>
				3775	<li><a href="#validate">How to debug catalog processing</a></li>
				3776	<li><a href="#Declaring">How to create and maintain catalogs</a></li>
				3777	<li><a href="#implemento">The implementor corner quick review of the
				3778	API</a></li>
				3779	<li><a href="#Other">Other resources</a></li>
				3780	</ol>
				3781
				3782	<h3><a name="General2">General overview</a></h3>
				3783
				3784	<p>What is a catalog? Basically it's a lookup mechanism used when an entity
				3785	(a file or a remote resource) references another entity. The catalog lookup
				3786	is inserted between the moment the reference is recognized by the software
				3787	(XML parser, stylesheet processing, or even images referenced for inclusion
				3788	in a rendering) and the time where loading that resource is actually
				3789	started.</p>
				3790
				3791	<p>It is basically used for 3 things:</p>
				3792	<ul>
				3793	<li>mapping from "logical" names, the public identifiers and a more
				3794	concrete name usable for download (and URI). For example it can associate
				3795	the logical name
				3796	<p>"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"</p>
				3797	<p>of the DocBook 4.1.2 XML DTD with the actual URL where it can be
				3798	downloaded</p>
				3799	<p>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd</p>
				3800	</li>
				3801	<li>remapping from a given URL to another one, like an HTTP indirection
				3802	saying that
				3803	<p>"http://www.oasis-open.org/committes/tr.xsl"</p>
				3804	<p>should really be looked at</p>
				3805	<p>"http://www.oasis-open.org/committes/entity/stylesheets/base/tr.xsl"</p>
				3806	</li>
				3807	<li>providing a local cache mechanism allowing to load the entities
				3808	associated to public identifiers or remote resources, this is a really
				3809	important feature for any significant deployment of XML or SGML since it
				3810	allows to avoid the aleas and delays associated to fetching remote
				3811	resources.</li>
				3812	</ul>
				3813
				3814	<h3><a name="definition">The definitions</a></h3>
				3815
				3816	<p>Libxml, as of 2.4.3 implements 2 kind of catalogs:</p>
				3817	<ul>
				3818	<li>the older SGML catalogs, the official spec is SGML Open Technical
				3819	Resolution TR9401:1997, but is better understood by reading <a
				3820	href="http://www.jclark.com/sp/catalog.htm">the SP Catalog page</a> from
				3821	James Clark. This is relatively old and not the preferred mode of
				3822	operation of libxml.</li>
				3823	<li><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec.html">XML
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3824	Catalogs</a> is far more flexible, more recent, uses an XML syntax and
				3825	should scale quite better. This is the default option of libxml.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3826	</ul>
				3827
				3828	<p></p>
				3829
				3830	<h3><a name="Simple">Using catalog</a></h3>
				3831
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3832	<p>In a normal environment libxml2 will by default check the presence of a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3833	catalog in /etc/xml/catalog, and assuming it has been correctly populated,
				3834	the processing is completely transparent to the document user. To take a
				3835	concrete example, suppose you are authoring a DocBook document, this one
				3836	starts with the following DOCTYPE definition:</p>
				3837	<pre><?xml version='1.0'?>
				3838	<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML V3.1.4//EN"
				3839	"http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/3.1.4/db3xml.dtd"></pre>
				3840
				3841	<p>When validating the document with libxml, the catalog will be
				3842	automatically consulted to lookup the public identifier "-//Norman Walsh//DTD
				3843	DocBk XML V3.1.4//EN" and the system identifier
				3844	"http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xml/3.1.4/db3xml.dtd", and if these entities have
				3845	been installed on your system and the catalogs actually point to them, libxml
				3846	will fetch them from the local disk.</p>
				3847
				3848	<p style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Note</strong>: Really don't use this
				3849	DOCTYPE example it's a really old version, but is fine as an example.</p>
				3850
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3851	<p>Libxml2 will check the catalog each time that it is requested to load an
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3852	entity, this includes DTD, external parsed entities, stylesheets, etc ... If
				3853	your system is correctly configured all the authoring phase and processing
				3854	should use only local files, even if your document stays portable because it
				3855	uses the canonical public and system ID, referencing the remote document.</p>
				3856
				3857	<h3><a name="Some">Some examples:</a></h3>
				3858
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3859	<p>Here is a couple of fragments from XML Catalogs used in libxml2 early
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3860	regression tests in <code>test/catalogs</code> :</p>
				3861	<pre><?xml version="1.0"?>
				3862	<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC
				3863	"-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
				3864	"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
				3865	<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
				3866	<public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				3867	uri="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"/>
				3868	...</pre>
				3869
				3870	<p>This is the beginning of a catalog for DocBook 4.1.2, XML Catalogs are
				3871	written in XML, there is a specific namespace for catalog elements
				3872	"urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog". The first entry in this
				3873	catalog is a <code>public</code> mapping it allows to associate a Public
				3874	Identifier with an URI.</p>
				3875	<pre>...
				3876	<rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"
				3877	rewritePrefix="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/"/>
				3878	...</pre>
				3879
				3880	<p>A <code>rewriteSystem</code> is a very powerful instruction, it says that
				3881	any URI starting with a given prefix should be looked at another URI
				3882	constructed by replacing the prefix with an new one. In effect this acts like
				3883	a cache system for a full area of the Web. In practice it is extremely useful
				3884	with a file prefix if you have installed a copy of those resources on your
				3885	local system.</p>
				3886	<pre>...
				3887	<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD XML Catalog //"
				3888	catalog="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook.xml"/>
				3889	<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML"
				3890	catalog="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook.xml"/>
				3891	<delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML"
				3892	catalog="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook.xml"/>
				3893	<delegateSystem systemIdStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"
				3894	catalog="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook.xml"/>
				3895	<delegateURI uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/"
				3896	catalog="file:///usr/share/xml/docbook.xml"/>
				3897	...</pre>
				3898
				3899	<p>Delegation is the core features which allows to build a tree of catalogs,
				3900	easier to maintain than a single catalog, based on Public Identifier, System
				3901	Identifier or URI prefixes it instructs the catalog software to look up
				3902	entries in another resource. This feature allow to build hierarchies of
				3903	catalogs, the set of entries presented should be sufficient to redirect the
				3904	resolution of all DocBook references to the specific catalog in
				3905	<code>/usr/share/xml/docbook.xml</code> this one in turn could delegate all
				3906	references for DocBook 4.2.1 to a specific catalog installed at the same time
				3907	as the DocBook resources on the local machine.</p>
				3908
				3909	<h3><a name="reference">How to tune catalog usage:</a></h3>
				3910
				3911	<p>The user can change the default catalog behaviour by redirecting queries
				3912	to its own set of catalogs, this can be done by setting the
				3913	<code>XML_CATALOG_FILES</code> environment variable to a list of catalogs, an
				3914	empty one should deactivate loading the default <code>/etc/xml/catalog</code>
				3915	default catalog</p>
				3916
				3917	<h3><a name="validate">How to debug catalog processing:</a></h3>
				3918
				3919	<p>Setting up the <code>XML_DEBUG_CATALOG</code> environment variable will
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3920	make libxml2 output debugging informations for each catalog operations, for
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	3921	example:</p>
				3922	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> xmllint --memory --noout test/ent2
				3923	warning: failed to load external entity "title.xml"
				3924	orchis:~/XML -> export XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=
				3925	orchis:~/XML -> xmllint --memory --noout test/ent2
				3926	Failed to parse catalog /etc/xml/catalog
				3927	Failed to parse catalog /etc/xml/catalog
				3928	warning: failed to load external entity "title.xml"
				3929	Catalogs cleanup
				3930	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				3931
				3932	<p>The test/ent2 references an entity, running the parser from memory makes
				3933	the base URI unavailable and the the "title.xml" entity cannot be loaded.
				3934	Setting up the debug environment variable allows to detect that an attempt is
				3935	made to load the <code>/etc/xml/catalog</code> but since it's not present the
				3936	resolution fails.</p>
				3937
				3938	<p>But the most advanced way to debug XML catalog processing is to use the
				3939	<strong>xmlcatalog</strong> command shipped with libxml2, it allows to load
				3940	catalogs and make resolution queries to see what is going on. This is also
				3941	used for the regression tests:</p>
				3942	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog test/catalogs/docbook.xml \
				3943	"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				3944	http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
				3945	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				3946
				3947	<p>For debugging what is going on, adding one -v flags increase the verbosity
				3948	level to indicate the processing done (adding a second flag also indicate
				3949	what elements are recognized at parsing):</p>
				3950	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog -v test/catalogs/docbook.xml \
				3951	"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				3952	Parsing catalog test/catalogs/docbook.xml's content
				3953	Found public match -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN
				3954	http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
				3955	Catalogs cleanup
				3956	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				3957
				3958	<p>A shell interface is also available to debug and process multiple queries
				3959	(and for regression tests):</p>
				3960	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog -shell test/catalogs/docbook.xml \
				3961	"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				3962	> help
				3963	Commands available:
				3964	public PublicID: make a PUBLIC identifier lookup
				3965	system SystemID: make a SYSTEM identifier lookup
				3966	resolve PublicID SystemID: do a full resolver lookup
				3967	add 'type' 'orig' 'replace' : add an entry
				3968	del 'values' : remove values
				3969	dump: print the current catalog state
				3970	debug: increase the verbosity level
				3971	quiet: decrease the verbosity level
				3972	exit: quit the shell
				3973	> public "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				3974	http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
				3975	> quit
				3976	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				3977
				3978	<p>This should be sufficient for most debugging purpose, this was actually
				3979	used heavily to debug the XML Catalog implementation itself.</p>
				3980
				3981	<h3><a name="Declaring">How to create and maintain</a> catalogs:</h3>
				3982
				3983	<p>Basically XML Catalogs are XML files, you can either use XML tools to
				3984	manage them or use <strong>xmlcatalog</strong> for this. The basic step is
				3985	to create a catalog the -create option provide this facility:</p>
				3986	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog --create tst.xml
				3987	<?xml version="1.0"?>
				3988	<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
				3989	"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
				3990	<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"/>
				3991	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				3992
				3993	<p>By default xmlcatalog does not overwrite the original catalog and save the
				3994	result on the standard output, this can be overridden using the -noout
				3995	option. The <code>-add</code> command allows to add entries in the
				3996	catalog:</p>
				3997	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog --noout --create --add "public" \
				3998	"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" \
				3999	http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd tst.xml
				4000	orchis:~/XML -> cat tst.xml
				4001	<?xml version="1.0"?>
				4002	<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" \
				4003	"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
				4004	<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
				4005	<public publicId="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
				4006	uri="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"/>
				4007	</catalog>
				4008	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				4009
				4010	<p>The <code>-add</code> option will always take 3 parameters even if some of
				4011	the XML Catalog constructs (like nextCatalog) will have only a single
				4012	argument, just pass a third empty string, it will be ignored.</p>
				4013
				4014	<p>Similarly the <code>-del</code> option remove matching entries from the
				4015	catalog:</p>
				4016	<pre>orchis:~/XML -> ./xmlcatalog --del \
				4017	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" tst.xml
				4018	<?xml version="1.0"?>
				4019	<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN"
				4020	"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
				4021	<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"/>
				4022	orchis:~/XML -> </pre>
				4023
				4024	<p>The catalog is now empty. Note that the matching of <code>-del</code> is
				4025	exact and would have worked in a similar fashion with the Public ID
				4026	string.</p>
				4027
				4028	<p>This is rudimentary but should be sufficient to manage a not too complex
				4029	catalog tree of resources.</p>
				4030
				4031	<h3><a name="implemento">The implementor corner quick review of the
				4032	API:</a></h3>
				4033
				4034	<p>First, and like for every other module of libxml, there is an
				4035	automatically generated <a href="html/libxml-catalog.html">API page for
				4036	catalog support</a>.</p>
				4037
				4038	<p>The header for the catalog interfaces should be included as:</p>
				4039	<pre>#include <libxml/catalog.h></pre>
				4040
				4041	<p>The API is voluntarily kept very simple. First it is not obvious that
				4042	applications really need access to it since it is the default behaviour of
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4043	libxml2 (Note: it is possible to completely override libxml2 default catalog
				4044	by using <a href="html/libxml-parser.html">xmlSetExternalEntityLoader</a> to
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4045	plug an application specific resolver).</p>
				4046
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4047	<p>Basically libxml2 support 2 catalog lists:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4048	<ul>
				4049	<li>the default one, global shared by all the application</li>
				4050	<li>a per-document catalog, this one is built if the document uses the
				4051	<code>oasis-xml-catalog</code> PIs to specify its own catalog list, it is
				4052	associated to the parser context and destroyed when the parsing context
				4053	is destroyed.</li>
				4054	</ul>
				4055
				4056	<p>the document one will be used first if it exists.</p>
				4057
				4058	<h4>Initialization routines:</h4>
				4059
				4060	<p>xmlInitializeCatalog(), xmlLoadCatalog() and xmlLoadCatalogs() should be
				4061	used at startup to initialize the catalog, if the catalog should be
				4062	initialized with specific values xmlLoadCatalog() or xmlLoadCatalogs()
				4063	should be called before xmlInitializeCatalog() which would otherwise do a
				4064	default initialization first.</p>
				4065
				4066	<p>The xmlCatalogAddLocal() call is used by the parser to grow the document
				4067	own catalog list if needed.</p>
				4068
				4069	<h4>Preferences setup:</h4>
				4070
				4071	<p>The XML Catalog spec requires the possibility to select default
				4072	preferences between public and system delegation,
				4073	xmlCatalogSetDefaultPrefer() allows this, xmlCatalogSetDefaults() and
				4074	xmlCatalogGetDefaults() allow to control if XML Catalogs resolution should
				4075	be forbidden, allowed for global catalog, for document catalog or both, the
				4076	default is to allow both.</p>
				4077
				4078	<p>And of course xmlCatalogSetDebug() allows to generate debug messages
				4079	(through the xmlGenericError() mechanism).</p>
				4080
				4081	<h4>Querying routines:</h4>
				4082
				4083	<p>xmlCatalogResolve(), xmlCatalogResolveSystem(), xmlCatalogResolvePublic()
				4084	and xmlCatalogResolveURI() are relatively explicit if you read the XML
				4085	Catalog specification they correspond to section 7 algorithms, they should
				4086	also work if you have loaded an SGML catalog with a simplified semantic.</p>
				4087
				4088	<p>xmlCatalogLocalResolve() and xmlCatalogLocalResolveURI() are the same but
				4089	operate on the document catalog list</p>
				4090
				4091	<h4>Cleanup and Miscellaneous:</h4>
				4092
				4093	<p>xmlCatalogCleanup() free-up the global catalog, xmlCatalogFreeLocal() is
				4094	the per-document equivalent.</p>
				4095
				4096	<p>xmlCatalogAdd() and xmlCatalogRemove() are used to dynamically modify the
				4097	first catalog in the global list, and xmlCatalogDump() allows to dump a
				4098	catalog state, those routines are primarily designed for xmlcatalog, I'm not
				4099	sure that exposing more complex interfaces (like navigation ones) would be
				4100	really useful.</p>
				4101
				4102	<p>The xmlParseCatalogFile() is a function used to load XML Catalog files,
				4103	it's similar as xmlParseFile() except it bypass all catalog lookups, it's
				4104	provided because this functionality may be useful for client tools.</p>
				4105
				4106	<h4>threaded environments:</h4>
				4107
				4108	<p>Since the catalog tree is built progressively, some care has been taken to
				4109	try to avoid troubles in multithreaded environments. The code is now thread
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4110	safe assuming that the libxml2 library has been compiled with threads
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4111	support.</p>
				4112
				4113	<p></p>
				4114
				4115	<h3><a name="Other">Other resources</a></h3>
				4116
				4117	<p>The XML Catalog specification is relatively recent so there isn't much
				4118	literature to point at:</p>
				4119	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4120	<li>You can find a good rant from Norm Walsh about <a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4121	href="http://www.arbortext.com/Think_Tank/XML_Resources/Issue_Three/issue_three.html">the
				4122	need for catalogs</a>, it provides a lot of context informations even if
Daniel Veillard	93d3a47	2002-04-26 14:04:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4123	I don't agree with everything presented. Norm also wrote a more recent
				4124	article <a
				4125	href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/resolver/article/">XML
				4126	entities and URI resolvers</a> describing them.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4127	<li>An <a href="http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/XCatalog.html">old XML
				4128	catalog proposal</a> from John Cowan</li>
				4129	<li>The <a href="http://www.rddl.org/">Resource Directory Description
				4130	Language</a> (RDDL) another catalog system but more oriented toward
				4131	providing metadata for XML namespaces.</li>
				4132	<li>the page from the OASIS Technical <a
				4133	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/">Committee on Entity
				4134	Resolution</a> who maintains XML Catalog, you will find pointers to the
				4135	specification update, some background and pointers to others tools
				4136	providing XML Catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard	abfca61	2004-01-07 23:38:02 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4137	<li>There is a <a href="buildDocBookCatalog">shell script</a> to generate
Daniel Veillard	35e937a	2002-01-19 22:21:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4138	XML Catalogs for DocBook 4.1.2 . If it can write to the /etc/xml/
				4139	directory, it will set-up /etc/xml/catalog and /etc/xml/docbook based on
				4140	the resources found on the system. Otherwise it will just create
				4141	~/xmlcatalog and ~/dbkxmlcatalog and doing:
Daniel Veillard	8594de9	2003-04-25 10:08:44 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4142	<p><code>export XML_CATALOG_FILES=$HOME/xmlcatalog</code></p>
Daniel Veillard	35e937a	2002-01-19 22:21:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4143	<p>should allow to process DocBook documentations without requiring
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4144	network accesses for the DTD or stylesheets</p>
Daniel Veillard	35e937a	2002-01-19 22:21:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4145	</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4146	<li>I have uploaded <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/test/dbk412catalog.tar.gz">a
Daniel Veillard	35e937a	2002-01-19 22:21:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4147	small tarball</a> containing XML Catalogs for DocBook 4.1.2 which seems
				4148	to work fine for me too</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4149	<li>The <a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/xmlcatalog_man.html">xmlcatalog
				4150	manual page</a></li>
				4151	</ul>
				4152
				4153	<p>If you have suggestions for corrections or additions, simply contact
				4154	me:</p>
				4155
				4156	<h2><a name="library">The parser interfaces</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4157
				4158	<p>This section is directly intended to help programmers getting bootstrapped
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4159	using the XML tollkit from the C language. It is not intended to be
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4160	extensive. I hope the automatically generated documents will provide the
				4161	completeness required, but as a separate set of documents. The interfaces of
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4162	the XML parser are by principle low level, Those interested in a higher level
				4163	API should <a href="#DOM">look at DOM</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4164
Daniel Veillard	9cb5ff4	2001-01-29 08:22:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4165	<p>The <a href="html/libxml-parser.html">parser interfaces for XML</a> are
				4166	separated from the <a href="html/libxml-htmlparser.html">HTML parser
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4167	interfaces</a>. Let's have a look at how the XML parser can be called:</p>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4168
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4169	<h3><a name="Invoking">Invoking the parser : the pull method</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4170
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4171	<p>Usually, the first thing to do is to read an XML input. The parser accepts
				4172	documents either from in-memory strings or from files. The functions are
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4173	defined in "parser.h":</p>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4174	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4175	<dt><code>xmlDocPtr xmlParseMemory(char *buffer, int size);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4176	<dd><p>Parse a null-terminated string containing the document.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4177	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4178	</dl>
				4179	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4180	<dt><code>xmlDocPtr xmlParseFile(const char *filename);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4181	<dd><p>Parse an XML document contained in a (possibly compressed)
				4182	file.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4183	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4184	</dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4185
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4186	<p>The parser returns a pointer to the document structure (or NULL in case of
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4187	failure).</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4188
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4189	<h3 id="Invoking1">Invoking the parser: the push method</h3>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4190
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4191	<p>In order for the application to keep the control when the document is
Daniel Veillard	560c2a4	2003-07-06 21:13:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4192	being fetched (which is common for GUI based programs) libxml2 provides a
				4193	push interface, too, as of version 1.8.3. Here are the interface
				4194	functions:</p>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4195	<pre>xmlParserCtxtPtr xmlCreatePushParserCtxt(xmlSAXHandlerPtr sax,
				4196	void *user_data,
				4197	const char *chunk,
				4198	int size,
				4199	const char *filename);
				4200	int xmlParseChunk (xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
				4201	const char *chunk,
				4202	int size,
				4203	int terminate);</pre>
				4204
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4205	<p>and here is a simple example showing how to use the interface:</p>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4206	<pre> FILE *f;
				4207
				4208	f = fopen(filename, "r");
				4209	if (f != NULL) {
				4210	int res, size = 1024;
				4211	char chars[1024];
				4212	xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt;
				4213
				4214	res = fread(chars, 1, 4, f);
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4215	if (res > 0) {
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4216	ctxt = xmlCreatePushParserCtxt(NULL, NULL,
				4217	chars, res, filename);
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4218	while ((res = fread(chars, 1, size, f)) > 0) {
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4219	xmlParseChunk(ctxt, chars, res, 0);
				4220	}
				4221	xmlParseChunk(ctxt, chars, 0, 1);
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4222	doc = ctxt->myDoc;
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4223	xmlFreeParserCtxt(ctxt);
				4224	}
				4225	}</pre>
				4226
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4227	<p>The HTML parser embedded into libxml2 also has a push interface; the
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4228	functions are just prefixed by "html" rather than "xml".</p>
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4229
				4230	<h3 id="Invoking2">Invoking the parser: the SAX interface</h3>
				4231
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4232	<p>The tree-building interface makes the parser memory-hungry, first loading
				4233	the document in memory and then building the tree itself. Reading a document
				4234	without building the tree is possible using the SAX interfaces (see SAX.h and
				4235	<a href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/xml-sax/xml-sax.html">James
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4236	Henstridge's documentation</a>). Note also that the push interface can be
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4237	limited to SAX: just use the two first arguments of
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4238	<code>xmlCreatePushParserCtxt()</code>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4239
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4240	<h3><a name="Building">Building a tree from scratch</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4241
				4242	<p>The other way to get an XML tree in memory is by building it. Basically
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4243	there is a set of functions dedicated to building new elements. (These are
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4244	also described in <libxml/tree.h>.) For example, here is a piece of
				4245	code that produces the XML document used in the previous examples:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4246	<pre> #include <libxml/tree.h>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4247	xmlDocPtr doc;
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4248	xmlNodePtr tree, subtree;
				4249
				4250	doc = xmlNewDoc("1.0");
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4251	doc->children = xmlNewDocNode(doc, NULL, "EXAMPLE", NULL);
				4252	xmlSetProp(doc->children, "prop1", "gnome is great");
				4253	xmlSetProp(doc->children, "prop2", "& linux too");
				4254	tree = xmlNewChild(doc->children, NULL, "head", NULL);
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4255	subtree = xmlNewChild(tree, NULL, "title", "Welcome to Gnome");
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4256	tree = xmlNewChild(doc->children, NULL, "chapter", NULL);
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4257	subtree = xmlNewChild(tree, NULL, "title", "The Linux adventure");
				4258	subtree = xmlNewChild(tree, NULL, "p", "bla bla bla ...");
				4259	subtree = xmlNewChild(tree, NULL, "image", NULL);
				4260	xmlSetProp(subtree, "href", "linus.gif");</pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4261
				4262	<p>Not really rocket science ...</p>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4263
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4264	<h3><a name="Traversing">Traversing the tree</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4265
Daniel Veillard	9cb5ff4	2001-01-29 08:22:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4266	<p>Basically by <a href="html/libxml-tree.html">including "tree.h"</a> your
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4267	code has access to the internal structure of all the elements of the tree.
				4268	The names should be somewhat simple like <strong>parent</strong>,
Daniel Veillard	306be99	2000-07-03 12:38:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4269	<strong>children</strong>, <strong>next</strong>, <strong>prev</strong>,
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4270	<strong>properties</strong>, etc... For example, still with the previous
Daniel Veillard	0142b84	2000-01-14 14:45:24 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4271	example:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4272	<pre><code>doc->children->children->children</code></pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4273
				4274	<p>points to the title element,</p>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4275	<pre>doc->children->children->next->children->children</pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4276
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4277	<p>points to the text node containing the chapter title "The Linux
				4278	adventure".</p>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4279
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4280	<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: XML allows <em>PI</em>s and <em>comments</em> to be
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4281	present before the document root, so <code>doc->children</code> may point
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4282	to an element which is not the document Root Element; a function
Daniel Veillard	5cb5ab8	1999-12-21 15:35:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4283	<code>xmlDocGetRootElement()</code> was added for this purpose.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b24054a	1999-12-18 15:32:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4284
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4285	<h3><a name="Modifying">Modifying the tree</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4286
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4287	<p>Functions are provided for reading and writing the document content. Here
Daniel Veillard	9cb5ff4	2001-01-29 08:22:21 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4288	is an excerpt from the <a href="html/libxml-tree.html">tree API</a>:</p>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4289	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	dd6b367	1999-09-23 22:19:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4290	<dt><code>xmlAttrPtr xmlSetProp(xmlNodePtr node, const xmlChar *name, const
				4291	xmlChar *value);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4292	<dd><p>This sets (or changes) an attribute carried by an ELEMENT node.
				4293	The value can be NULL.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4294	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4295	</dl>
				4296	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	dd6b367	1999-09-23 22:19:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4297	<dt><code>const xmlChar *xmlGetProp(xmlNodePtr node, const xmlChar
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4298	*name);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	c92c304	2000-09-29 02:42:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4299	<dd><p>This function returns a pointer to new copy of the property
				4300	content. Note that the user must deallocate the result.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4301	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4302	</dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4303
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4304	<p>Two functions are provided for reading and writing the text associated
				4305	with elements:</p>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4306	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	dd6b367	1999-09-23 22:19:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4307	<dt><code>xmlNodePtr xmlStringGetNodeList(xmlDocPtr doc, const xmlChar
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4308	*value);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4309	<dd><p>This function takes an "external" string and converts it to one
				4310	text node or possibly to a list of entity and text nodes. All
				4311	non-predefined entity references like &Gnome; will be stored
				4312	internally as entity nodes, hence the result of the function may not be
				4313	a single node.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4314	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4315	</dl>
				4316	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	dd6b367	1999-09-23 22:19:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4317	<dt><code>xmlChar *xmlNodeListGetString(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr list, int
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4318	inLine);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4319	<dd><p>This function is the inverse of
				4320	<code>xmlStringGetNodeList()</code>. It generates a new string
				4321	containing the content of the text and entity nodes. Note the extra
				4322	argument inLine. If this argument is set to 1, the function will expand
				4323	entity references. For example, instead of returning the &Gnome;
				4324	XML encoding in the string, it will substitute it with its value (say,
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4325	"GNU Network Object Model Environment").</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4326	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4327	</dl>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4328
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4329	<h3><a name="Saving">Saving a tree</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4330
				4331	<p>Basically 3 options are possible:</p>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4332	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	dd6b367	1999-09-23 22:19:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4333	<dt><code>void xmlDocDumpMemory(xmlDocPtr cur, xmlChar**mem, int
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4334	*size);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4335	<dd><p>Returns a buffer into which the document has been saved.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4336	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4337	</dl>
				4338	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4339	<dt><code>extern void xmlDocDump(FILE *f, xmlDocPtr doc);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4340	<dd><p>Dumps a document to an open file descriptor.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4341	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4342	</dl>
				4343	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4344	<dt><code>int xmlSaveFile(const char *filename, xmlDocPtr cur);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4345	<dd><p>Saves the document to a file. In this case, the compression
				4346	interface is triggered if it has been turned on.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4347	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4348	</dl>
Daniel Veillard	10c6a8f	1998-10-28 01:00:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4349
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4350	<h3><a name="Compressio">Compression</a></h3>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4351
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4352	<p>The library transparently handles compression when doing file-based
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4353	accesses. The level of compression on saves can be turned on either globally
				4354	or individually for one file:</p>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4355	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4356	<dt><code>int xmlGetDocCompressMode (xmlDocPtr doc);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4357	<dd><p>Gets the document compression ratio (0-9).</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4358	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4359	</dl>
				4360	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4361	<dt><code>void xmlSetDocCompressMode (xmlDocPtr doc, int mode);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4362	<dd><p>Sets the document compression ratio.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4363	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4364	</dl>
				4365	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4366	<dt><code>int xmlGetCompressMode(void);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4367	<dd><p>Gets the default compression ratio.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4368	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4369	</dl>
				4370	<dl>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4371	<dt><code>void xmlSetCompressMode(int mode);</code></dt>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4372	<dd><p>Sets the default compression ratio.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4373	</dd>
Daniel Veillard	25940b7	1998-10-29 05:51:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4374	</dl>
				4375
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4376	<h2><a name="Entities">Entities or no entities</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4377
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4378	<p>Entities in principle are similar to simple C macros. An entity defines an
				4379	abbreviation for a given string that you can reuse many times throughout the
				4380	content of your document. Entities are especially useful when a given string
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4381	may occur frequently within a document, or to confine the change needed to a
				4382	document to a restricted area in the internal subset of the document (at the
				4383	beginning). Example:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4384	<pre>1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4385	2 <!DOCTYPE EXAMPLE SYSTEM "example.dtd" [
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4386	3 <!ENTITY xml "Extensible Markup Language">
				4387	4 ]>
				4388	5 <EXAMPLE>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4389	6 &xml;
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4390	7 </EXAMPLE></pre>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4391
				4392	<p>Line 3 declares the xml entity. Line 6 uses the xml entity, by prefixing
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4393	its name with '&' and following it by ';' without any spaces added. There
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4394	are 5 predefined entities in libxml2 allowing you to escape characters with
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4395	predefined meaning in some parts of the xml document content:
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4396	<strong>&lt;</strong> for the character '<', <strong>&gt;</strong>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4397	for the character '>', <strong>&apos;</strong> for the character ''',
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4398	<strong>&quot;</strong> for the character '"', and
				4399	<strong>&amp;</strong> for the character '&'.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4400
				4401	<p>One of the problems related to entities is that you may want the parser to
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4402	substitute an entity's content so that you can see the replacement text in
				4403	your application. Or you may prefer to keep entity references as such in the
				4404	content to be able to save the document back without losing this usually
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4405	precious information (if the user went through the pain of explicitly
				4406	defining entities, he may have a a rather negative attitude if you blindly
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4407	substitute them as saving time). The <a
Daniel Veillard	5373ea1	2003-07-24 13:09:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4408	href="html/libxml-parser.html#xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault">xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault()</a>
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4409	function allows you to check and change the behaviour, which is to not
				4410	substitute entities by default.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4411
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4412	<p>Here is the DOM tree built by libxml2 for the previous document in the
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4413	default case:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4414	<pre>/gnome/src/gnome-xml -> ./xmllint --debug test/ent1
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4415	DOCUMENT
				4416	version=1.0
				4417	ELEMENT EXAMPLE
				4418	TEXT
				4419	content=
				4420	ENTITY_REF
				4421	INTERNAL_GENERAL_ENTITY xml
				4422	content=Extensible Markup Language
				4423	TEXT
				4424	content=</pre>
				4425
				4426	<p>And here is the result when substituting entities:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4427	<pre>/gnome/src/gnome-xml -> ./tester --debug --noent test/ent1
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4428	DOCUMENT
				4429	version=1.0
				4430	ELEMENT EXAMPLE
				4431	TEXT
				4432	content= Extensible Markup Language</pre>
				4433
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4434	<p>So, entities or no entities? Basically, it depends on your use case. I
				4435	suggest that you keep the non-substituting default behaviour and avoid using
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4436	entities in your XML document or data if you are not willing to handle the
				4437	entity references elements in the DOM tree.</p>
				4438
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4439	<p>Note that at save time libxml2 enforces the conversion of the predefined
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4440	entities where necessary to prevent well-formedness problems, and will also
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4441	transparently replace those with chars (i.e. it will not generate entity
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4442	reference elements in the DOM tree or call the reference() SAX callback when
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4443	finding them in the input).</p>
				4444
Daniel Veillard	7b9c4b7	2000-08-25 16:26:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4445	<p><span style="background-color: #FF0000">WARNING</span>: handling entities
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4446	on top of the libxml2 SAX interface is difficult!!! If you plan to use
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4447	non-predefined entities in your documents, then the learning curve to handle
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4448	then using the SAX API may be long. If you plan to use complex documents, I
Daniel Veillard	7b9c4b7	2000-08-25 16:26:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4449	strongly suggest you consider using the DOM interface instead and let libxml
Daniel Veillard	8c6d6af	2000-08-25 17:14:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4450	deal with the complexity rather than trying to do it yourself.</p>
Daniel Veillard	7b9c4b7	2000-08-25 16:26:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4451
Daniel Veillard	2f4dfc4	1999-09-24 14:03:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4452	<h2><a name="Namespaces">Namespaces</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4453
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4454	<p>The libxml2 library implements <a
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4455	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">XML namespaces</a> support by
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4456	recognizing namespace constructs in the input, and does namespace lookup
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4457	automatically when building the DOM tree. A namespace declaration is
				4458	associated with an in-memory structure and all elements or attributes within
				4459	that namespace point to it. Hence testing the namespace is a simple and fast
				4460	equality operation at the user level.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4461
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4462	<p>I suggest that people using libxml2 use a namespace, and declare it in the
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4463	root element of their document as the default namespace. Then they don't need
				4464	to use the prefix in the content but we will have a basis for future semantic
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4465	refinement and merging of data from different sources. This doesn't increase
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4466	the size of the XML output significantly, but significantly increases its
				4467	value in the long-term. Example:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4468	<pre><mydoc xmlns="http://mydoc.example.org/schemas/">
				4469	<elem1>...</elem1>
				4470	<elem2>...</elem2>
				4471	</mydoc></pre>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4472
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4473	<p>The namespace value has to be an absolute URL, but the URL doesn't have to
				4474	point to any existing resource on the Web. It will bind all the element and
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4475	attributes with that URL. I suggest to use an URL within a domain you
				4476	control, and that the URL should contain some kind of version information if
				4477	possible. For example, <code>"http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric/1.0/"</code> is a
				4478	good namespace scheme.</p>
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4479
				4480	<p>Then when you load a file, make sure that a namespace carrying the
Daniel Veillard	88f00ae	2000-03-02 00:15:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4481	version-independent prefix is installed on the root element of your document,
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4482	and if the version information don't match something you know, warn the user
				4483	and be liberal in what you accept as the input. Also do not try to base
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4484	namespace checking on the prefix value. <foo:text> may be exactly the
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4485	same as <bar:text> in another document. What really matters is the URI
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4486	associated with the element or the attribute, not the prefix string (which is
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4487	just a shortcut for the full URI). In libxml, element and attributes have an
Daniel Veillard	ec30341	2000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4488	<code>ns</code> field pointing to an xmlNs structure detailing the namespace
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4489	prefix and its URI.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4490
				4491	<p>@@Interfaces@@</p>
Daniel Veillard	3e35f8e	2003-10-21 00:05:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4492	<pre>xmlNodePtr node;
Daniel Veillard	fc8dc35	2003-10-18 09:07:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4493	if(!strncmp(node->name,"mytag",5)
				4494	&& node->ns
				4495	&& !strcmp(node->ns->href,"http://www.mysite.com/myns/1.0")) {
				4496	...
Daniel Veillard	3e35f8e	2003-10-21 00:05:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4497	}</pre>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4498
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4499	<p>Usually people object to using namespaces together with validity checking.
				4500	I will try to make sure that using namespaces won't break validity checking,
				4501	so even if you plan to use or currently are using validation I strongly
Daniel Veillard	f13e1ed	2000-03-06 07:41:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4502	suggest adding namespaces to your document. A default namespace scheme
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4503	<code>xmlns="http://...."</code> should not break validity even on less
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4504	flexible parsers. Using namespaces to mix and differentiate content coming
Daniel Veillard	3e35f8e	2003-10-21 00:05:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4505	from multiple DTDs will certainly break current validation schemes. To check
				4506	such documents one needs to use schema-validation, which is supported in
				4507	libxml2 as well. See <a href="http://www.relaxng.org/">relagx-ng</a> and <a
				4508	href="http://www.w3c.org/XML/Schema">w3c-schema</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4509
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4510	<h2><a name="Upgrading">Upgrading 1.x code</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4511
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4512	<p>Incompatible changes:</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4513
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4514	<p>Version 2 of libxml2 is the first version introducing serious backward
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4515	incompatible changes. The main goals were:</p>
				4516	<ul>
				4517	<li>a general cleanup. A number of mistakes inherited from the very early
				4518	versions couldn't be changed due to compatibility constraints. Example
				4519	the "childs" element in the nodes.</li>
				4520	<li>Uniformization of the various nodes, at least for their header and link
				4521	parts (doc, parent, children, prev, next), the goal is a simpler
				4522	programming model and simplifying the task of the DOM implementors.</li>
				4523	<li>better conformances to the XML specification, for example version 1.x
				4524	had an heuristic to try to detect ignorable white spaces. As a result the
				4525	SAX event generated were ignorableWhitespace() while the spec requires
				4526	character() in that case. This also mean that a number of DOM node
				4527	containing blank text may populate the DOM tree which were not present
				4528	before.</li>
				4529	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4530
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4531	<h3>How to fix libxml-1.x code:</h3>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4532
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4533	<p>So client code of libxml designed to run with version 1.x may have to be
				4534	changed to compile against version 2.x of libxml. Here is a list of changes
				4535	that I have collected, they may not be sufficient, so in case you find other
Daniel Veillard	fc8dc35	2003-10-18 09:07:46 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4536	change which are required, <a href="mailto:Daniel.Veillard@w3.org">drop me a
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4537	mail</a>:</p>
				4538	<ol>
				4539	<li>The package name have changed from libxml to libxml2, the library name
				4540	is now -lxml2 . There is a new xml2-config script which should be used to
				4541	select the right parameters libxml2</li>
				4542	<li>Node <strong>childs</strong> field has been renamed
				4543	<strong>children</strong> so s/childs/children/g should be applied
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4544	(probability of having "childs" anywhere else is close to 0+</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4545	<li>The document don't have anymore a <strong>root</strong> element it has
				4546	been replaced by <strong>children</strong> and usually you will get a
				4547	list of element here. For example a Dtd element for the internal subset
				4548	and it's declaration may be found in that list, as well as processing
				4549	instructions or comments found before or after the document root element.
				4550	Use <strong>xmlDocGetRootElement(doc)</strong> to get the root element of
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4551	a document. Alternatively if you are sure to not reference DTDs nor have
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4552	PIs or comments before or after the root element
				4553	s/->root/->children/g will probably do it.</li>
				4554	<li>The white space issue, this one is more complex, unless special case of
				4555	validating parsing, the line breaks and spaces usually used for indenting
				4556	and formatting the document content becomes significant. So they are
				4557	reported by SAX and if your using the DOM tree, corresponding nodes are
				4558	generated. Too approach can be taken:
				4559	<ol>
				4560	<li>lazy one, use the compatibility call
				4561	<strong>xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0)</strong> but be aware that you are
				4562	relying on a special (and possibly broken) set of heuristics of
				4563	libxml to detect ignorable blanks. Don't complain if it breaks or
				4564	make your application not 100% clean w.r.t. to it's input.</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4565	<li>the Right Way: change you code to accept possibly insignificant
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4566	blanks characters, or have your tree populated with weird blank text
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4567	nodes. You can spot them using the commodity function
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4568	<strong>xmlIsBlankNode(node)</strong> returning 1 for such blank
				4569	nodes.</li>
				4570	</ol>
				4571	<p>Note also that with the new default the output functions don't add any
				4572	extra indentation when saving a tree in order to be able to round trip
				4573	(read and save) without inflating the document with extra formatting
				4574	chars.</p>
				4575	</li>
				4576	<li>The include path has changed to $prefix/libxml/ and the includes
				4577	themselves uses this new prefix in includes instructions... If you are
				4578	using (as expected) the
				4579	<pre>xml2-config --cflags</pre>
				4580	<p>output to generate you compile commands this will probably work out of
				4581	the box</p>
				4582	</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4583	<li>xmlDetectCharEncoding takes an extra argument indicating the length in
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4584	byte of the head of the document available for character detection.</li>
				4585	</ol>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4586
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4587	<h3>Ensuring both libxml-1.x and libxml-2.x compatibility</h3>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4588
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4589	<p>Two new version of libxml (1.8.11) and libxml2 (2.3.4) have been released
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4590	to allow smooth upgrade of existing libxml v1code while retaining
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4591	compatibility. They offers the following:</p>
				4592	<ol>
				4593	<li>similar include naming, one should use
				4594	<strong>#include<libxml/...></strong> in both cases.</li>
				4595	<li>similar identifiers defined via macros for the child and root fields:
				4596	respectively <strong>xmlChildrenNode</strong> and
				4597	<strong>xmlRootNode</strong></li>
				4598	<li>a new macro <strong>LIBXML_TEST_VERSION</strong> which should be
				4599	inserted once in the client code</li>
				4600	</ol>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4601
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4602	<p>So the roadmap to upgrade your existing libxml applications is the
				4603	following:</p>
				4604	<ol>
				4605	<li>install the libxml-1.8.8 (and libxml-devel-1.8.8) packages</li>
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4606	<li>find all occurrences where the xmlDoc <strong>root</strong> field is
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4607	used and change it to <strong>xmlRootNode</strong></li>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4608	<li>similarly find all occurrences where the xmlNode
				4609	<strong>childs</strong> field is used and change it to
				4610	<strong>xmlChildrenNode</strong></li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4611	<li>add a <strong>LIBXML_TEST_VERSION</strong> macro somewhere in your
				4612	<strong>main()</strong> or in the library init entry point</li>
				4613	<li>Recompile, check compatibility, it should still work</li>
Daniel Veillard	c0801af	2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4614	<li>Change your configure script to look first for xml2-config and fall
				4615	back using xml-config . Use the --cflags and --libs output of the command
				4616	as the Include and Linking parameters needed to use libxml.</li>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4617	<li>install libxml2-2.3.x and libxml2-devel-2.3.x (libxml-1.8.y and
				4618	libxml-devel-1.8.y can be kept simultaneously)</li>
				4619	<li>remove your config.cache, relaunch your configuration mechanism, and
				4620	recompile, if steps 2 and 3 were done right it should compile as-is</li>
				4621	<li>Test that your application is still running correctly, if not this may
				4622	be due to extra empty nodes due to formating spaces being kept in libxml2
				4623	contrary to libxml1, in that case insert xmlKeepBlanksDefault(1) in your
				4624	code before calling the parser (next to
				4625	<strong>LIBXML_TEST_VERSION</strong> is a fine place).</li>
				4626	</ol>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4627
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4628	<p>Following those steps should work. It worked for some of my own code.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4629
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4630	<p>Let me put some emphasis on the fact that there is far more changes from
				4631	libxml 1.x to 2.x than the ones you may have to patch for. The overall code
				4632	has been considerably cleaned up and the conformance to the XML specification
				4633	has been drastically improved too. Don't take those changes as an excuse to
				4634	not upgrade, it may cost a lot on the long term ...</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4635
Daniel Veillard	52dcab3	2001-10-30 12:51:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4636	<h2><a name="Thread">Thread safety</a></h2>
				4637
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4638	<p>Starting with 2.4.7, libxml2 makes provisions to ensure that concurrent
Daniel Veillard	52dcab3	2001-10-30 12:51:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4639	threads can safely work in parallel parsing different documents. There is
				4640	however a couple of things to do to ensure it:</p>
				4641	<ul>
				4642	<li>configure the library accordingly using the --with-threads options</li>
				4643	<li>call xmlInitParser() in the "main" thread before using any of the
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4644	libxml2 API (except possibly selecting a different memory allocator)</li>
Daniel Veillard	52dcab3	2001-10-30 12:51:17 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4645	</ul>
				4646
				4647	<p>Note that the thread safety cannot be ensured for multiple threads sharing
				4648	the same document, the locking must be done at the application level, libxml
				4649	exports a basic mutex and reentrant mutexes API in <libxml/threads.h>.
				4650	The parts of the library checked for thread safety are:</p>
				4651	<ul>
				4652	<li>concurrent loading</li>
				4653	<li>file access resolution</li>
				4654	<li>catalog access</li>
				4655	<li>catalog building</li>
				4656	<li>entities lookup/accesses</li>
				4657	<li>validation</li>
				4658	<li>global variables per-thread override</li>
				4659	<li>memory handling</li>
				4660	</ul>
				4661
				4662	<p>XPath is supposed to be thread safe now, but this wasn't tested
				4663	seriously.</p>
				4664
Daniel Veillard	3500838	1999-10-25 13:15:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4665	<h2><a name="DOM"></a><a name="Principles">DOM Principles</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4666
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4667	<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> stands for the <em>Document
				4668	Object Model</em>; this is an API for accessing XML or HTML structured
				4669	documents. Native support for DOM in Gnome is on the way (module gnome-dom),
				4670	and will be based on gnome-xml. This will be a far cleaner interface to
				4671	manipulate XML files within Gnome since it won't expose the internal
				4672	structure.</p>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4673
Daniel Veillard	8a46917	2003-06-12 16:05:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4674	<p>The current DOM implementation on top of libxml2 is the <a
Daniel Veillard	a47fb3d	2001-03-25 17:23:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4675	href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gdome2/">gdome2 Gnome module</a>, this
				4676	is a full DOM interface, thanks to Paolo Casarini, check the <a
				4677	href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">Gdome2 homepage</a> for more
				4678	informations.</p>
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4679
Daniel Veillard	3500838	1999-10-25 13:15:52 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4680	<h2><a name="Example"></a><a name="real">A real example</a></h2>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4681
				4682	<p>Here is a real size example, where the actual content of the application
				4683	data is not kept in the DOM tree but uses internal structures. It is based on
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4684	a proposal to keep a database of jobs related to Gnome, with an XML based
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4685	storage structure. Here is an <a href="gjobs.xml">XML encoded jobs
				4686	base</a>:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4687	<pre><?xml version="1.0"?>
				4688	<gjob:Helping xmlns:gjob="http://www.gnome.org/some-location">
				4689	<gjob:Jobs>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4690
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4691	<gjob:Job>
				4692	<gjob:Project ID="3"/>
				4693	<gjob:Application>GBackup</gjob:Application>
				4694	<gjob:Category>Development</gjob:Category>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4695
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4696	<gjob:Update>
				4697	<gjob:Status>Open</gjob:Status>
				4698	<gjob:Modified>Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:27:45 -0400 MET DST</gjob:Modified>
				4699	<gjob:Salary>USD 0.00</gjob:Salary>
				4700	</gjob:Update>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4701
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4702	<gjob:Developers>
				4703	<gjob:Developer>
				4704	</gjob:Developer>
				4705	</gjob:Developers>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4706
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4707	<gjob:Contact>
				4708	<gjob:Person>Nathan Clemons</gjob:Person>
				4709	<gjob:Email>nathan@windsofstorm.net</gjob:Email>
				4710	<gjob:Company>
				4711	</gjob:Company>
				4712	<gjob:Organisation>
				4713	</gjob:Organisation>
				4714	<gjob:Webpage>
				4715	</gjob:Webpage>
				4716	<gjob:Snailmail>
				4717	</gjob:Snailmail>
				4718	<gjob:Phone>
				4719	</gjob:Phone>
				4720	</gjob:Contact>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4721
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4722	<gjob:Requirements>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4723	The program should be released as free software, under the GPL.
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4724	</gjob:Requirements>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4725
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4726	<gjob:Skills>
				4727	</gjob:Skills>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4728
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4729	<gjob:Details>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4730	A GNOME based system that will allow a superuser to configure
				4731	compressed and uncompressed files and/or file systems to be backed
				4732	up with a supported media in the system. This should be able to
				4733	perform via find commands generating a list of files that are passed
				4734	to tar, dd, cpio, cp, gzip, etc., to be directed to the tape machine
				4735	or via operations performed on the filesystem itself. Email
				4736	notification and GUI status display very important.
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4737	</gjob:Details>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4738
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4739	</gjob:Job>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4740
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4741	</gjob:Jobs>
				4742	</gjob:Helping></pre>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4743
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4744	<p>While loading the XML file into an internal DOM tree is a matter of
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4745	calling only a couple of functions, browsing the tree to gather the data and
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4746	generate the internal structures is harder, and more error prone.</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4747
				4748	<p>The suggested principle is to be tolerant with respect to the input
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4749	structure. For example, the ordering of the attributes is not significant,
				4750	the XML specification is clear about it. It's also usually a good idea not to
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4751	depend on the order of the children of a given node, unless it really makes
				4752	things harder. Here is some code to parse the information for a person:</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4753	<pre>/*
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4754	* A person record
				4755	*/
				4756	typedef struct person {
				4757	char *name;
				4758	char *email;
				4759	char *company;
				4760	char *organisation;
				4761	char *smail;
				4762	char *webPage;
				4763	char *phone;
				4764	} person, *personPtr;
				4765
				4766	/*
				4767	* And the code needed to parse it
				4768	*/
				4769	personPtr parsePerson(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNsPtr ns, xmlNodePtr cur) {
				4770	personPtr ret = NULL;
				4771
				4772	DEBUG("parsePerson\n");
				4773	/*
				4774	* allocate the struct
				4775	*/
				4776	ret = (personPtr) malloc(sizeof(person));
				4777	if (ret == NULL) {
				4778	fprintf(stderr,"out of memory\n");
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4779	return(NULL);
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4780	}
				4781	memset(ret, 0, sizeof(person));
				4782
				4783	/* We don't care what the top level element name is */
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4784	cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4785	while (cur != NULL) {
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4786	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Person")) && (cur->ns == ns))
				4787	ret->name = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
				4788	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Email")) && (cur->ns == ns))
				4789	ret->email = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
				4790	cur = cur->next;
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4791	}
				4792
				4793	return(ret);
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4794	}</pre>
				4795
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4796	<p>Here are a couple of things to notice:</p>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4797	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	91e9d58	2001-02-26 07:31:12 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4798	<li>Usually a recursive parsing style is the more convenient one: XML data
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4799	is by nature subject to repetitive constructs and usually exhibits highly
				4800	structured patterns.</li>
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4801	<li>The two arguments of type <em>xmlDocPtr</em> and <em>xmlNsPtr</em>,
				4802	i.e. the pointer to the global XML document and the namespace reserved to
				4803	the application. Document wide information are needed for example to
				4804	decode entities and it's a good coding practice to define a namespace for
				4805	your application set of data and test that the element and attributes
				4806	you're analyzing actually pertains to your application space. This is
				4807	done by a simple equality test (cur->ns == ns).</li>
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4808	<li>To retrieve text and attributes value, you can use the function
				4809	<em>xmlNodeListGetString</em> to gather all the text and entity reference
				4810	nodes generated by the DOM output and produce an single text string.</li>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4811	</ul>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4812
				4813	<p>Here is another piece of code used to parse another level of the
				4814	structure:</p>
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4815	<pre>#include <libxml/tree.h>
Daniel Veillard	361d845	2000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4816	/*
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4817	* a Description for a Job
				4818	*/
				4819	typedef struct job {
				4820	char *projectID;
				4821	char *application;
				4822	char *category;
				4823	personPtr contact;
				4824	int nbDevelopers;
				4825	personPtr developers[100]; /* using dynamic alloc is left as an exercise */
				4826	} job, *jobPtr;
				4827
				4828	/*
				4829	* And the code needed to parse it
				4830	*/
				4831	jobPtr parseJob(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNsPtr ns, xmlNodePtr cur) {
				4832	jobPtr ret = NULL;
				4833
				4834	DEBUG("parseJob\n");
				4835	/*
				4836	* allocate the struct
				4837	*/
				4838	ret = (jobPtr) malloc(sizeof(job));
				4839	if (ret == NULL) {
				4840	fprintf(stderr,"out of memory\n");
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4841	return(NULL);
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4842	}
				4843	memset(ret, 0, sizeof(job));
				4844
				4845	/* We don't care what the top level element name is */
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4846	cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4847	while (cur != NULL) {
				4848
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4849	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Project")) && (cur->ns == ns)) {
				4850	ret->projectID = xmlGetProp(cur, "ID");
				4851	if (ret->projectID == NULL) {
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4852	fprintf(stderr, "Project has no ID\n");
				4853	}
				4854	}
Daniel Veillard	60979bd	2000-07-10 12:17:33 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4855	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Application")) && (cur->ns == ns))
				4856	ret->application = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
				4857	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Category")) && (cur->ns == ns))
				4858	ret->category = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
				4859	if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Contact")) && (cur->ns == ns))
				4860	ret->contact = parsePerson(doc, ns, cur);
				4861	cur = cur->next;
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4862	}
				4863
				4864	return(ret);
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4865	}</pre>
Daniel Veillard	14fff06	1999-06-22 21:49:07 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4866
Daniel Veillard	ec70e91	2001-02-26 20:10:45 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4867	<p>Once you are used to it, writing this kind of code is quite simple, but
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4868	boring. Ultimately, it could be possible to write stubbers taking either C
Daniel Veillard	3d6ae1c	2001-08-15 13:12:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4869	data structure definitions, a set of XML examples or an XML DTD and produce
				4870	the code needed to import and export the content between C data and XML
				4871	storage. This is left as an exercise to the reader :-)</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4872
Daniel Veillard	6f0adb5	2000-07-03 11:41:26 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4873	<p>Feel free to use <a href="example/gjobread.c">the code for the full C
				4874	parsing example</a> as a template, it is also available with Makefile in the
				4875	Gnome CVS base under gnome-xml/example</p>
Daniel Veillard	b05deb7	1999-08-10 19:04:08 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4876
Daniel Veillard	c310d56	2000-06-23 18:32:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4877	<h2><a name="Contributi">Contributions</a></h2>
				4878	<ul>
Daniel Veillard	b8cfbd1	2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4879	<li>Bjorn Reese, William Brack and Thomas Broyer have provided a number of
				4880	patches, Gary Pennington worked on the validation API, threading support
				4881	and Solaris port.</li>
				4882	<li>John Fleck helps maintaining the documentation and man pages.</li>
Daniel Veillard	7b4b2f9	2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4883	<li><a href="mailto:igor@zlatkovic.com">Igor Zlatkovic</a> is now the
				4884	maintainer of the Windows port, <a
				4885	href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/index.html">he provides
				4886	binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4887	<li><a href="mailto:Gary.Pennington@sun.com">Gary Pennington</a> provides
				4888	<a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	e356c28	2001-03-10 12:32:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4889	<li><a
				4890	href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt
Daniel Veillard	63d8314	2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4891	Sergeant</a> developed <a
				4892	href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a Perl wrapper for
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4893	libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML
				4894	application server</a></li>
				4895	<li><a href="mailto:fnatter@gmx.net">Felix Natter</a> and <a
				4896	href="mailto:geertk@ai.rug.nl">Geert Kloosterman</a> provide <a
Daniel Veillard	ca98976	2001-06-23 17:39:29 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4897	href="libxml-doc.el">an emacs module</a> to lookup libxml(2) functions
Daniel Veillard	3f6f7f6	2000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4898	documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard	af43f63	2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4899	<li><a href="mailto:sherwin@nlm.nih.gov">Ziying Sherwin</a> provided <a
				4900	href="http://xmlsoft.org/messages/0488.html">man pages</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	5168dbf	2001-07-07 00:18:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4901	<li>there is a module for <a
				4902	href="http://acs-misc.sourceforge.net/nsxml.html">libxml/libxslt support
				4903	in OpenNSD/AOLServer</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4904	<li><a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provided the
				4905	first version of libxml/libxslt <a
				4906	href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	1aadc44	2001-11-28 13:10:32 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4907	<li>Petr Kozelka provides <a
				4908	href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue
				4909	libxml2</a> with Kylix and Delphi and other Pascal compilers</li>
Daniel Veillard	2d347fa	2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4910	<li><a href="mailto:aleksey@aleksey.com">Aleksey Sanin</a> implemented the
				4911	<a href="http://www.w3.org/Signature/">XML Canonicalization and XML
				4912	Digital Signature</a> <a
				4913	href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">implementations for libxml2</a></li>
Daniel Veillard	6795260	2006-01-05 15:29:44 +0000	[diff] [blame^]	4914	<li><a href="mailto:Steve.Ball@explain.com.au">Steve Ball</a> and
				4915	contributors maintain <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">tcl
				4916	bindings for libxml2 and libxslt</a>, as well as <a
Daniel Veillard	17bed98	2003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4917	href="http://tclxml.sf.net/tkxmllint.html">tkxmllint</a> a GUI for
				4918	xmllint and <a href="http://tclxml.sf.net/tkxsltproc.html">tkxsltproc</a>
				4919	a GUI for xsltproc.</li>
Daniel Veillard	c310d56	2000-06-23 18:32:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4920	</ul>
				4921
Daniel Veillard	c8eab3a	1999-09-04 18:27:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4922	<p></p>
Daniel Veillard	ccb0963	1998-10-27 06:21:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	4923	</body>
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