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| Expat, Release 2.00 |
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| This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat |
| is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with |
| the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when |
| the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. |
| A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may |
| register handlers. |
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| Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the |
| terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed with this |
| package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license. |
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| To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the top |
| level distribution directory: |
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| ./configure |
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| There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you can |
| discover by running configure with the --help option.) But the one of most |
| interest is the one that sets the installation directory. By default, |
| the configure script will set things up to install libexpat into |
| /usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If, for example, you'd |
| prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and /home/me/mystuff/include, |
| you can tell configure about that with: |
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| ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff |
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| After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and |
| "make install" will install things into their proper location. Note that |
| you need to have write permission into the directories into which things |
| will be installed. |
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| A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this |
| distribution. |
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| The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net. There are |
| links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need to report |
| a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also send a bug |
| report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net. |
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| Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes place |
| on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list may be found |
| at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss. |
