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Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. 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 bracket. HTML is the most well-known
markup language.
Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
languages:
In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively
strict way. To some extent libxml2 provide some support for the following
other specification but don't claim to implement them:
- Document Object Model (DOM) http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/
it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this in top of
libxml2
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RFC 959
: libxml implements a basic FTP client code
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RFC 1945
: HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code
- SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
versions
- DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
XML
Libxml2 is known to be very portable, should build and work without
serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, CygWin,
MacOs, MacOsX, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)
Separate documents:
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the libxslt page
providing an implementation of XSLT 1.0 and extensions on top of
libxml2
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the gdome2 page
: a standard DOM2 implementation based on libxml2
Daniel Veillard
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