.TH libxml 3 "12 April 2000"

.SH NAME

libxml \- library used to parse XML files

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.I  libxml

library is used to parse XML files. 

Its internal document representation is as close as possible to the 

.I DOM 

(Document Object Model) interface,

an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents.

.LP

The

.I libxml

library also has a 

.IR SAX -like

interface, 

which is designed to be compatible with 

.IR expat (1).

NOTE:

.IR SAX , 

the Simple API for XML,

is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing,

developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, 

currently hosted by OASIS.

The

.I expat

library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C,

which aims to be fully conforming. 

It is currently not a validating XML processor.

.LP

The

.I libxml 

library now includes a nearly complete 

.I XPath 

implementation. 

The

.I XPath

(XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an 

XML document,

designed to be used by both 

.I XSLT 

and 

.IR XPointer .

.LP

The

.I libxml 

library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and 

.IR html . 

.SH FILES

.TP 2.2i

.B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a

static library

.TP

.B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so

shared library

.TP

.B /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint

binary application for parsing XML files

.SH AUTHORS

Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com).

Red Hat Inc.

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov),

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,

U.S. National Library of Medicine.

.SH SEE ALSO

.IR xmllint (1),

.IR libxslt (3),

.IR libexslt (3),

.IR xsltproc (1)

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