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Daniel Veillard6581e1b2003-02-09 22:21:43 +0000[diff] [blame]98<p></p>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]99<p>Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. XML itself
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]100is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where
101semantic and structure are added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot;
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most well-known
Daniel Veillard1eb24242002-03-18 11:33:03 +0000[diff] [blame]103markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="python.html">a
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]104variety of language bindings</a> make it available in other environments.</p>
Daniel Veillard710823b2003-03-04 10:05:52 +0000[diff] [blame^]105<p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
106without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
107CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]108<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
109languages:</p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]110<ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]111<li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a>
112</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]113 <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]114</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]115 <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]116</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <li>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]118<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
119 Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]120</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]121 <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]122</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]123 <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]124</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]125 <li>most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]126</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]127 <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]128</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]129 <li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]130 and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
131 [UTF-16] core encodings</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]132 <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
133 <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html</a>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]134</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]135 <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]136 and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n</a>
Daniel Veillard5c396542002-03-15 07:57:50 +0000[diff] [blame]137</li>
Daniel Veillard17bed982003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000[diff] [blame]138 <li>Relax NG Committee Specification 3 December 2001 <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html</a>
139</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]140</ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]141<p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]142strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all 1800+ tests
143from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
Daniel Veillarda5393562002-02-20 11:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]144Suite</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]145<p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
146specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]147<ul>
148<li>Document Object Model (DOM) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/</a>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]149 it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]150 libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]151 <li>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]152<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
153 libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]154 <li>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]155<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
156 HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]157 <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]158 versions</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]159 <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]160 XML</li>
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Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000[diff] [blame]162<p>A partial implementation of XML Schemas is being worked on but it would be
163far too early to make any conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]164<p>Separate documents:</p>
165<ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame]166<li>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]167<a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]168 implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
169 libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]170 <li>
Daniel Veillardc6271d22001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000[diff] [blame]171<a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]172 : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]173 <li>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]174<a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
175 implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
176 Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]177 <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]178 projects.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]179</ul>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000[diff] [blame]180<p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]181<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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