| Owen Taylor | 3473f88 | 2001-02-23 17:55:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .TH libxml 4 "12 April 2000" |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | libxml \- library used to parse XML files |
| 4 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 5 | The |
| 6 | .I libxml |
| 7 | library is used to parse XML files. |
| 8 | Its internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the |
| 9 | .I DOM |
| 10 | (Document Object Model) interface, |
| 11 | an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents. |
| 12 | .LP |
| 13 | The |
| 14 | .I libxml |
| 15 | library also has a |
| 16 | .IR SAX -like |
| 17 | interface, |
| 18 | which is designed to be compatible with |
| 19 | .IR expat (1). |
| 20 | NOTE: |
| 21 | .IR SAX , |
| 22 | the Simple API for XML, |
| 23 | is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing, |
| 24 | developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, |
| 25 | currently hosted by OASIS. |
| 26 | The |
| 27 | .I expat |
| 28 | library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C, |
| 29 | which aims to be fully conforming. |
| 30 | It is currently not a validating XML processor. |
| 31 | .LP |
| 32 | The |
| 33 | .I libxml |
| 34 | library now includes a nearly complete |
| 35 | .I XPath |
| 36 | implementation. |
| 37 | The |
| 38 | .I XPath |
| 39 | (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an |
| 40 | XML document, |
| 41 | designed to be used by both |
| 42 | .I XSLT |
| 43 | and |
| 44 | .IR XPointer . |
| 45 | .LP |
| 46 | The |
| 47 | .I libxml |
| 48 | library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and |
| 49 | .IR html . |
| 50 | .SH FILES |
| 51 | .TP 2.2i |
| 52 | .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a |
| 53 | static library |
| 54 | .TP |
| 55 | .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so |
| 56 | shareable library |
| 57 | .TP |
| 58 | .B /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint |
| 59 | binary application for parsing XML files |
| 60 | .SH AUTHORS |
| 61 | Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org). |
| 62 | If you download and install this package please send the author email. |
| 63 | Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), |
| 64 | Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, |
| 65 | U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
| 66 | .\" end of manual page |