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| <p style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt">"Programming |
| with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." |
| <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">Mark |
| Pilgrim |
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| <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project |
| (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available |
| under the |
| <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT |
| License |
| </a> |
| . XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. |
| text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using |
| extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most |
| well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C |
| <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings |
| </a> |
| make it available in |
| other environments. |
| </p> |
| <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work |
| without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, |
| CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...) |
| </p> |
| <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup |
| languages: |
| </p> |
| <ul> <li>the XML standard: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml |
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| <li>Namespaces in XML: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ |
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| <li>XML Base: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/ |
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| |
| <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396 |
| </a> |
| : |
| Uniform Resource Identifiers |
| <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt |
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| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath |
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| <li>HTML4 parser: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ |
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| <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr |
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| <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ |
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| |
| |
| <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as |
| <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044 |
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| [UTF-8] |
| and |
| <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781 |
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| [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support |
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| <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997 |
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| <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: |
| <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html |
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| |
| <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n |
| </a> |
| |
| and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n |
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| |
| |
| <li>Relax NG, ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003, |
| <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html |
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| |
| |
| <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May |
| 2001 |
| </a> |
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| <li>W3C |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id |
| </a> |
| Working Draft 7 |
| April 2004 |
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| |
| |
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| <p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a |
| relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all |
| 1800+ tests from the |
| <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests |
| Suite |
| </a> |
| . |
| </p> |
| <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional |
| specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely: |
| </p> |
| <ul> <li>Document Object Model (DOM) |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/ |
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| |
| it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of |
| libxml2 |
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| |
| <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959 |
| </a> |
| : |
| libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code |
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| <li> <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945 |
| </a> |
| : |
| HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code |
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| |
| <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat |
| versions |
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| |
| |
| <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to |
| XML |
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| |
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| <p>A partial implementation of |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part |
| 1: Structure |
| </a> |
| is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any |
| conformance statement about it at the moment. |
| </p> |
| <p>Separate documents: |
| </p> |
| <ul> <li> <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page |
| </a> |
| providing an |
| implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for |
| libxml2 |
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| |
| |
| <li> <a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page |
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| |
| : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2 |
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| |
| <li> <a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page |
| </a> |
| : an |
| implementation of |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML |
| Digital Signature |
| </a> |
| for libxml2 |
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| |
| <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active |
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