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| 22 | <h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1> |
| 23 | <h2>Introduction</h2> |
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Daniel Veillard | b8cfbd1 | 2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | <li><a href="architecture.html">libxml architecture</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | <li><a href="tree.html">The tree output</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | b8cfbd1 | 2001-10-25 10:53:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | <li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation & DTDs</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | <li><a href="DOM.html">DOM Principles</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | fc59c09 | 2002-06-05 14:48:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <li><a href="tutorial/index.html">Tutorial</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 3bf65be | 2002-01-23 12:36:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | <li><a href="APIconstructors.html">Constructors</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li> |
| 83 | <li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 4a85920 | 2002-01-08 11:49:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | <li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li> |
| 87 | <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] | 88 | <li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | cb7543b | 2002-09-09 10:54:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | <li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | e6d8e20 | 2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 594cf0b | 2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | </ul></td></tr> |
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Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 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 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | structured documents/data.</p> |
| 98 | <p>Here are some key points about libxml:</p> |
| 99 | <ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | <li>Libxml exports Push (progressive) and Pull (blocking) type parser |
| 101 | interfaces for both XML and HTML.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | <li>Libxml can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 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> |
| 105 | <li>It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on |
| 107 | Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | <li>Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing applications to fetch |
| 109 | remote resources.</li> |
| 110 | <li>The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.</li> |
| 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 Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | <li>This library is released under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT |
| 115 | License</a>. See the Copyright file in the distribution for the precise |
Daniel Veillard | c575b99 | 2002-02-08 13:28:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | wording.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | </ul> |
| 118 | <p>Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | Gnome-1.X library requiring it, <strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use libxml1</span></strong>, use |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | libxml2</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 3f4c40f | 2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | <p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | </td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td> |
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