libxml(3) Introduction to Library Functions libxml(3)

NAME

libxml - library used to parse XML files

DESCRIPTION

The libxml library is used to parse XML files. Its internal document
representation is as close as possible to the DOM (Document Object
Model) interface, an API for accessing XML or HTML structured
documents.

The libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, which is designed
to be compatible with expat(1). NOTE: 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 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.

The libxml library now includes a nearly complete XPath
implementation. The XPath (XML Path Language) is a language for
addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT
and XPointer.

The libxml library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for
both XML and html.

FILES

/depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a
static library

/depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so
shared library

/depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
binary application for parsing XML files

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.

SEE ALSO

xmllint(1), libxslt(3), libexslt(3), xsltproc(1)

12 April 2000 libxml(3)