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20<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
21<h2>Introduction</h2>
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72<p>This document describes libxml, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> C library developped for the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</a> project. <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML is a standard</a> for building tag-based
73structured documents/data.</p>
74<p>Here are some key points about libxml:</p>
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76<li>Libxml exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and
77 HTML.</li>
78<li>Libxml can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document
79 instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.</li>
80<li>Libxml now includes nearly complete <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> implementations.</li>
81<li>It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and
82 sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on
83 Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.</li>
84<li>Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing aplications to fetch
85 remote resources</li>
86<li>The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.</li>
87<li>The internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> interfaces.</li>
88<li>Libxml also has a <a href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX
89 like interface</a>; the interface is designed to be compatible with <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat</a>.</li>
90<li>This library is released both under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720.html">W3C
91 IPR</a> and the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU
92 LGPL</a>. Use either at your convenience, basically this should make
93 everybody happy, if not, drop me a mail.</li>
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95<p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a
96Gnome library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use
97libxml2</p>
98<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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