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| 21 | <h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1> |
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Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li> |
| 74 | <li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 4a85920 | 2002-01-08 11:49:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | <li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li> |
| 77 | <li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | db9dfd9 | 2001-11-26 17:25:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | <li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | <li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml">Bug Tracker</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | </ul></td></tr> |
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| 84 | <p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | <p>Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. XML itself |
| 86 | is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where |
| 87 | semantic and structure are added to the content using extra "markup" |
| 88 | information enclosed between angle bracket. HTML is the most well-known |
| 89 | markup language.</p> |
| 90 | <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup |
| 91 | languages:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | <ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a> |
| 94 | </li> |
| 95 | <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a> |
| 96 | </li> |
| 97 | <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a> |
| 98 | </li> |
| 99 | <li> |
| 100 | <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | : Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | </li> |
| 103 | <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a> |
| 104 | </li> |
| 105 | <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a> |
| 106 | </li> |
| 107 | <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> |
| 108 | </li> |
| 109 | <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a> |
| 110 | </li> |
| 111 | <li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8] |
| 112 | and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a> |
| 113 | [UTF-16] core encodings</li> |
| 114 | <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li> |
| 115 | <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> |
| 116 | </li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | </ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | <p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively |
| 119 | strict way. To some extent libxml2 provide some support for the following |
| 120 | other specification but don't claim to implement them:</p> |
| 121 | <ul> |
| 122 | <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> |
| 123 | it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this in top of |
| 124 | libxml2</li> |
| 125 | <li> |
| 126 | <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | : libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | <li> |
| 129 | <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | : HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat |
| 132 | versions</li> |
| 133 | <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to |
| 134 | XML</li> |
| 135 | </ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 845cce4 | 2002-01-09 11:51:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, should build and work without |
| 137 | serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, CygWin, |
| 138 | MacOs, MacOsX, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | <p>Separate documents:</p> |
| 140 | <ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> |
| 143 | providing an implementation of XSLT 1.0 and extensions on top of |
| 144 | libxml2</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 9c46682 | 2001-10-25 12:03:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | c6271d2 | 2001-10-27 07:50:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a> |
Daniel Veillard | 5109531 | 2001-10-28 18:51:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | : a standard DOM2 implementation based on libxml2</li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | </ul> |
| 149 | <p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p> |
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