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22<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
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Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]96<p>This document describes libxml, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> C library developed 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
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Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]104 <li>Libxml includes 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>
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111 <li>The internal document representation is as close as possible to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">DOM</a> interfaces.</li>
112 <li>Libxml also has a <a href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]113 like interface</a>; the interface is designed to be compatible with <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">Expat</a>.</li>
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118<p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]119Gnome-1.X library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use
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