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Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]85<p>Table of Content:</p>
86<ul>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]87<li><a href="FAQ.html#Licence">Licence(s)</a></li>
88<li><a href="FAQ.html#Installati">Installation</a></li>
89<li><a href="FAQ.html#Compilatio">Compilation</a></li>
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Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]91</ul>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]92<h3>
93<a name="Licence">Licence</a>(s)</h3>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]94<ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]95<li>
96<em>Licensing Terms for libxml</em>
Daniel Veillardc575b992002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000[diff] [blame^]97 <p>libxml is released under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
98 Licence</a>, see the file Copyright in the distribution for the precise
99 wording</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]100</li>
101<li>
102<em>Can I embed libxml in a proprietary application ?</em>
Daniel Veillardc575b992002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000[diff] [blame^]103 <p>Yes. The MIT Licence allows you to also keep proprietary the changes
104 you made to libxml, but it would be graceful to provide back bugfixes and
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]105 improvements as patches for possible incorporation in the main
106 development tree</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]107</li>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]108</ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]109<h3><a name="Installati">Installation</a></h3>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]110<ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]111<li>Unless you are forced to because your application links with a Gnome
Daniel Veillarde0c1d722001-03-21 10:28:36 +0000[diff] [blame]112 library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do
113 Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use libxml2</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]114<li>
115<em>Where can I get libxml</em>
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]116 ?
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <p>The original distribution comes from <a href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">rpmfind.net</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libxml/">gnome.org</a>
118</p>
119<p>Most linux and Bsd distribution includes libxml, this is probably the
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]120 safer way for end-users</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]121<p>David Doolin provides precompiled Windows versions at <a href="http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/ ">http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/</a>
122</p>
123</li>
124<li>
125<em>I see libxml and libxml2 releases, which one should I install ?</em>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]126 <ul>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]127<li>If you are not concerned by any existing backward compatibility
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]128 with existing application, install libxml2 only</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]129<li>If you are not doing development, you can safely install both.
130 usually the packages <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml.html">libxml</a> and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml2</a> are
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]131 compatible (this is not the case for development packages)</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]132<li>If you are a developer and your system provides separate packaging
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]133 for shared libraries and the development components, it is possible
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]134 to install libxml and libxml2, and also <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml-devel.html">libxml-devel</a>
135 and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2-devel.html">libxml2-devel</a>
Daniel Veillard480363b2001-03-16 22:04:15 +0000[diff] [blame]136 too for libxml2 &gt;= 2.3.0</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]137<li>If you are developing a new application, please develop against
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]138 libxml2(-devel)</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]139</ul>
140</li>
141<li>
142<em>I can't install the libxml package it conflicts with libxml0</em>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]143 <p>You probably have an old libxml0 package used to provide the shared
144 library for libxml.so.0, you can probably safely remove it. Anyway the
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]145 libxml packages provided on <a href="ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/libxml/">rpmfind.net</a> provides
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]146 libxml.so.0</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]147</li>
148<li>
149<em>I can't install the libxml(2) RPM package due to failed
Daniel Veillardc654d602001-05-01 12:42:26 +0000[diff] [blame]150 dependancies</em>
151 <p>The most generic solution is to refetch the latest src.rpm , and
152 rebuild it locally with</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]153<p><code>rpm --rebuild libxml(2)-xxx.src.rpm</code></p>
154<p>if everything goes well it will generate two binary rpm (one providing
Daniel Veillardc654d602001-05-01 12:42:26 +0000[diff] [blame]155 the shared libs and xmllint, and the other one, the -devel package
156 providing includes, static libraries and scripts needed to build
157 applications with libxml(2)) that you can install locally.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]158</li>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]159</ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]160<h3><a name="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h3>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]161<ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]162<li>
163<em>What is the process to compile libxml ?</em>
164 <p>As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the &quot;standard&quot;:</p>
165<p><code>gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code></p>
166<p><code>cd libxml-xxxx</code></p>
167<p><code>./configure --help</code></p>
168<p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p>
169<p><code>./configure [possible options]</code></p>
170<p><code>make</code></p>
171<p><code>make install</code></p>
172<p>At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]173 update your list of installed shared libs.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]174</li>
175<li>
176<em>What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ?</em>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]177 <p>Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API
178 should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you may
179 find).</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]180<p>However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use the
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]181 following libs:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]182<ul>
183<li>
184<a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">libz</a>
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]185 : a highly portable and available widely compression library</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]186<li>iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]187 included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't need to
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]188 be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's now <a href="http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html">part
189 of the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a href="http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html">implementation
190 of the library</a> which source can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>.</li>
191</ul>
192</li>
193<li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]194<em>make check fails on some platforms</em>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]195 <p>Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the value
196 produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print the delta. On
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]197 some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation process, if the
198 diff is small this is probably not a serious problem</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]199</li>
200<li>
201<em>I use the CVS version and there is no configure script</em>
Daniel Veillard6761eee2001-06-11 10:29:38 +0000[diff] [blame]202 <p>The configure (and other Makefiles) are generated. Use the autogen.sh
203 script to regenerate the configure and Makefiles, like:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]204<p><code>./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-shared</code></p>
205</li>
206<li>
207<em>I have troubles when running make tests with gcc-3.0</em>
Daniel Veillard7b06bcb2001-06-22 16:03:51 +0000[diff] [blame]208 <p>It seems the initial release of gcc-3.0 has a problem with the
209 optimizer which miscompiles the URI module. Please use another
210 compiler</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]211</li>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]212</ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]213<h3>
214<a name="Developer">Developer</a> corner</h3>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]215<ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]216<li>
217<em>xmlDocDump() generates output on one line</em>
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]218 <p>libxml will not <strong>invent</strong> spaces in the content of a
219 document since <strong>all spaces in the content of a document are
220 significant</strong>. If you build a tree from the API and want
221 indentation:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]222<ol>
223<li>the correct way is to generate those yourself too</li>
224<li>the dangerous way is to ask libxml to add those blanks to your
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]225 content <strong>modifying the content of your document in the
226 process</strong>. The result may not be what you expect. There is
227 <strong>NO</strong> way to guarantee that such a modification won't
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]228 impact other part of the content of your document. See <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#XMLKEEPBLANKSDEFAULT">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
229 ()</a> and <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLSAVEFORMATFILE">xmlSaveFormatFile
230 ()</a>
231</li>
232</ol>
233</li>
234<li>Extra nodes in the document:
Daniel Veillard62bccd52001-02-10 09:40:10 +0000[diff] [blame]235 <p><em>For a XML file as below:</em></p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]236<pre>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
237&lt;PLAN xmlns=&quot;http://www.argus.ca/autotest/1.0/&quot;&gt;
238&lt;NODE CommFlag=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;
239&lt;NODE CommFlag=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;
Daniel Veillard62bccd52001-02-10 09:40:10 +0000[diff] [blame]240&lt;/PLAN&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]241<p><em>after parsing it with the function
Daniel Veillard480363b2001-03-16 22:04:15 +0000[diff] [blame]242 pxmlDoc=xmlParseFile(...);</em></p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]243<p><em>I want to the get the content of the first node (node with the
244 CommFlag=&quot;0&quot;)</em></p>
245<p><em>so I did it as following;</em></p>
246<pre>xmlNodePtr pode;
Daniel Veillard62bccd52001-02-10 09:40:10 +0000[diff] [blame]247pnode=pxmlDoc-&gt;children-&gt;children;</pre>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]248<p><em>but it does not work. If I change it to</em></p>
249<pre>pnode=pxmlDoc-&gt;children-&gt;children-&gt;next;</pre>
250<p><em>then it works. Can someone explain it to me.</em></p>
251<p>
252<p>In XML all characters in the content of the document are significant
Daniel Veillard7f41b3e2001-02-10 09:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]253 <strong>including blanks and formatting line breaks</strong>.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]254<p>The extra nodes you are wondering about are just that, text nodes with
Daniel Veillard7f41b3e2001-02-10 09:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]255 the formatting spaces wich are part of the document but that people tend
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]256 to forget. There is a function <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
Daniel Veillard7f41b3e2001-02-10 09:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]257 ()</a> to remove those at parse time, but that's an heuristic, and its
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]258 use should be limited to case where you are sure there is no
259 mixed-content in the document.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]260</li>
261<li>
262<em>I get compilation errors of existing code like when accessing
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]263 <strong>root</strong> or <strong>childs fields</strong> of nodes</em>
Daniel Veillard3f3b4f32001-03-13 15:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]264 <p>You are compiling code developed for libxml version 1 and using a
265 libxml2 development environment. Either switch back to libxml v1 devel or
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]266 even better fix the code to compile with libxml2 (or both) by <a href="upgrade.html">following the instructions</a>.</p>
267</li>
268<li>
269<em>I get compilation errors about non existing
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <strong>xmlRootNode</strong> or <strong>xmlChildrenNode</strong>
271 fields</em>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]272 <p>The source code you are using has been <a href="upgrade.html">upgraded</a> to be able to compile with both libxml
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]273 and libxml2, but you need to install a more recent version:
274 libxml(-devel) &gt;= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) &gt;= 2.1.0</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]275</li>
276<li>
277<em>XPath implementation looks seriously broken</em>
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]278 <p>XPath implementation prior to 2.3.0 was really incomplete, upgrade to
279 a recent version, the implementation and debug of libxslt generated fixes
Daniel Veillard480363b2001-03-16 22:04:15 +0000[diff] [blame]280 for most obvious problems.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]281</li>
282<li>
283<em>The example provided in the web page does not compile</em>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]284 <p>It's hard to maintain the documentation in sync with the code
Daniel Veillarde9202a02000-10-16 16:58:19 +0000[diff] [blame]285 &lt;grin/&gt; ...</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]286<p>Check the previous points 1/ and 2/ raised before, and send
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]287 patches.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]288</li>
289<li>
290<em>Where can I get more examples and informations than in the web
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]291 page</em>
292 <p>Ideally a libxml book would be nice. I have no such plan ... But you
293 can:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]294<ul>
295<li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing
296 generated doc</a>
297</li>
298<li>looks for examples of use for libxml function using the Gnome code
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]299 for example the following will query the full Gnome CVs base for the
300 use of the <strong>xmlAddChild()</strong> function:
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]301 <p><a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/search?string=xmlAddChild">http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/search?string=xmlAddChild</a></p>
302<p>This may be slow, a large hardware donation to the gnome project
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]303 could cure this :-)</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]304</li>
305<li>
306<a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&amp;dir=gnome-xml">Browse
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]307 the libxml source</a>
308 , I try to write code as clean and documented as possible, so
309 looking at it may be helpful</li>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]310</ul>
311</li>
312<li>What about C++ ?
Daniel Veillard008186f2001-09-13 14:24:44 +0000[diff] [blame]313 <p>libxml is written in pure C in order to allow easy reuse on a number
314 of platforms, including embedded systems. I don't intend to convert to
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]315 C++.</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]316<p>There is however a C++ wrapper provided by Ari Johnson
Daniel Veillarde9202a02000-10-16 16:58:19 +0000[diff] [blame]317 &lt;ari@btigate.com&gt; which may fullfill your needs:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]318<p>Website: <a href="http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/">http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/</a>
319</p>
320<p>Download: <a href="http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/libxml++.tar.gz">http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/libxml++.tar.gz</a>
321</p>
322</li>
323<li>How to validate a document a posteriori ?
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]324 <p>It is possible to validate documents which had not been validated at
325 initial parsing time or documents who have been built from scratch using
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]326 the API. Use the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#XMLVALIDATEDTD">xmlValidateDtd()</a>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]327 function. It is also possible to simply add a Dtd to an existing
328 document:</p>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]329<pre>xmlDocPtr doc; /* your existing document */
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]330 xmlDtdPtr dtd = xmlParseDTD(NULL, filename_of_dtd); /* parse the DTD */
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]331 dtd-&gt;name = xmlStrDup((xmlChar*)&quot;root_name&quot;); /* use the given root */
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]332
Daniel Veillarde9202a02000-10-16 16:58:19 +0000[diff] [blame]333 doc-&gt;intSubset = dtd;
334 if (doc-&gt;children == NULL) xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)doc, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
335 else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc-&gt;children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]336 </pre>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]337</li>
338<li>etc ...</li>
Daniel Veillardaf743792000-07-01 11:49:28 +0000[diff] [blame]339</ol>
Daniel Veillardb8cfbd12001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000[diff] [blame]340<p>
Daniel Veillardc5d64342001-06-24 12:13:24 +0000[diff] [blame]341<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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