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21<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
22<h2>libxml</h2>
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63<li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li>
64<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li>
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66<li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li>
67<li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
68<li><a href="http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~garypen/libxml/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
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Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame^]74<p>Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. XML itself
75is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where
76semantic and structure are added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot;
77information enclosed between angle bracket. HTML is the most well-known
78markup language.</p>
79<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
80languages:</p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]81<ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame^]82<li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a>
83</li>
84<li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a>
85</li>
86<li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a>
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89<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>
90 : Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a>
91</li>
92<li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a>
93</li>
94<li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a>
95</li>
96<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>
97</li>
98<li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a>
99</li>
100<li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
101 and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
102 [UTF-16] core encodings</li>
103<li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
104<li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html</a>
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Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]106</ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame^]107<p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively
108strict way. To some extent libxml2 provide some support for the following
109other specification but don't claim to implement them:</p>
110<ul>
111<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>
112 it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this in top of
113 libxml2</li>
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115<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a>
116 : libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li>
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118<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a>
119 : HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
120<li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
121 versions</li>
122<li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
123 XML</li>
124</ul>
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Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]126<p>Separate documents:</p>
127<ul>
Daniel Veillard9c466822001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000[diff] [blame^]128<li>
129<a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
130 implementation of XSLT 1.0 and extensions on top of libxml2</li>
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132<a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>:
133 a standard DOM2 implementation based on libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]134</ul>
135<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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