"Programmingwithlibxml2
is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." MarkPilgrim
Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnomeproject(but
usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free softwareavailableunder the
MITLicense.XML
itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.text languagewhere
semantic and structure are added to the content usingextra
"markup"information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the
mostwell-knownmarkup language. Though the library is written in C avariety of language bindingsmake it available inother
environments.
Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build
andworkwithout serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux,
Unix,Windows,CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)
Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related
tomarkuplanguages:
In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in
arelativelystrictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passed
all1800+ testsfrom the OASIS
XMLTestsSuite.
To some extent libxml2 provides support for the
followingadditionalspecifications but doesn't claim to implement them
completely:
- Document Object Model (DOM) http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/thedocument
model, but it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 doesthison top of
libxml2
- RFC959:libxml2
implements a basic FTP client code
- RFC1945:HTTP/1.0,
again a basic HTTP client code
- SAX: a SAX2 like interface and a minimal SAX1
implementationcompatiblewith early expat versions
A partial implementation of XML Schemas
Part1:Structureis being worked on but it would be far too early to
makeanyconformance statement about it at the moment.
Separate documents:
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Daniel Veillard
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