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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" /><style type="text/css"> TD {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica} BODY {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; margin-top: 2em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em} H1 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica} H2 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica} H3 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica} A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline } </style><title>Python and bindings</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" 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href="APIfunctions.html">Functions/Types</a></li><li><a href="APIfiles.html">Modules</a></li><li><a href="APIsymbols.html">Symbols</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/xml-tools/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>There are a number of language bindings and wrappers available for libxml2, the list below is not exhaustive. Please contact the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-bindings">xml-bindings@gnome.org</a> (<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-bindings/">archives</a>) in order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2 or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p><ul><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">Libxml++</a> seems the most up-to-date C++ bindings for libxml2, check the <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/reference/html/hierarchy.html">documentation</a> and the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/libxmlplusplus/libxml%2b%2b/examples/">examples</a>.</li> <li>There is another <a href="http://libgdome-cpp.berlios.de/">C++ wrapper based on the gdome2 bindings</a> maintained by Tobias Peters.</li> <li>and a third C++ wrapper by Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.org> <p>Website: <a href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/</a></p> </li> <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt Sergeant</a> developed <a href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a Perl wrapper for libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML application server</a>.</li> <li>If you're interested into scripting XML processing, have a look at <a href="http://xsh.sourceforge.net/">XSH</a> an XML editing shell based on Libxml2 Perl bindings.</li> <li><a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides an earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>.</li> <li>Gopal.V and Peter Minten develop <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libxmlsharp">libxml#</a>, a set of C# libxml2 bindings.</li> <li>Petr Kozelka provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers.</li> <li>Uwe Fechner also provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/idom2-pas/">idom2</a>, a DOM2 implementation for Kylix2/D5/D6 from Borland.</li> <li>There is <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/xml-tools/">bindings for Ruby</a> and libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the <a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module maintained by Tobias Peters.</li> <li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for Tcl</a>.</li> <li>libxml2 and libxslt is the default XML library for PHP5.</li> <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx/">LibxmlJ</a> is an effort to create a 100% JAXP-compatible Java wrapper for libxml2 and libxslt as part of GNU ClasspathX project.</li> <li>Patrick McPhee provides Rexx bindings fof libxml2 and libxslt, look for <a href="http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/software.html">RexxXML</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/xml_suite.html">Satimage</a> provides <a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads_osaxen.html">XMLLib osax</a>. This is an osax for Mac OS X with a set of commands to implement in AppleScript the XML DOM, XPATH and XSLT. Also includes commands for Property-lists (Apple's fast lookup table XML format.)</li> <li>Francesco Montorsi developped <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51305&package_id=45182">wxXml2</a> wrappers that interface libxml2, allowing wxWidgets applications to load/save/edit XML instances.</li> </ul><p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are guaranteed to be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python interface have not yet reached the completeness of the C API.</p><p>Note that some of the Python purist dislike the default set of Python bindings, rather than complaining I suggest they have a look at <a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml the more pythonic bindings for libxml2 and libxslt</a> and <a href="http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/lxml-dev">help Martijn Faassen</a> complete those.</p><p><a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">St