libxml(3)libxml(3)NAME
libxml - library used to parse XML files
DESCRIPTION
The libxml library is used to parse XML files. Its internal document
repesentation is as close as possible to the DOM (Document Object
Model) interface, an API for accessing XML or HTML structured docu‐
ments.
The libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, which is designed to
be compatible with that of another XML parser library called expat.
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
/usr/lib/libxml2.so shareable library
/usr/bin/xmlcatalog binary application for parsing and manipulating
XML or SGML catalog files
/usr/bin/xmllint binary application for parsing XML files
/usr/bin/xml2-config binary application for printing library configu‐
ration
/usr/include/libxml2 header files
AUTHORS
Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com). If you download and install
this package please send the author email. Manual page by Ziying Sher‐
win (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
SEE ALSOxmlcatalog(1), xmllint(1), xml2-config(1).
NOTES
Source for libxml is available on http://opensolaris.org. Documenta‐
tion for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/
23 May 2002 libxml(3)
