libxml(3)libxml(3)NAMElibxml - library used to parse XML files
DESCRIPTION
The libxml library is used to parse XML files. Its inter-
nal document repesentation is as close as possible to the
DOM (Document Object Model) interface, an API for access-
ing 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 mem-
bers 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 lan-
guage 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
shareable library
/depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
binary application for parsing XML
files
AUTHORS
Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com). Red Hat Inc. Man-
ual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister
Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S.
National Library of Medicine.
SEE ALSOxmllint(1), libxslt(3), libexslt(3), xsltproc(1)
12 April 2000 libxml(3)
