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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>The XML C library for Gnome</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"> <tr> <td width="180"> <a href="http://www.gnome.org/"> <img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /> </a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"> <img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /> </a> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/"> <img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /> </a> <div align="left"> <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"> <img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /> </a> </div> </td> <td> <table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"> <tr> <td> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"> <tr> <td align="center"> <h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1> <h2>libxml</h2> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#8b7765"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"> <tr> <td> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"> <center> <b>Main Menu</b> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#fffacd"> <form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"> <input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /> </form> <ul> <li> <a href="index.html">Home</a> </li> <li> <a href="intro.html">Introduction</a> </li> <li> <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a> </li> <li> <a href="docs.html">Developer Documentation</a> </li> <li> <a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a> </li> <li> <a href="help.html">How to help</a> </li> <li> <a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a> </li> <li> <a href="news.html">News</a> </li> <li> <a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a> </li> <li> <a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a> </li> <li> <a href="xmldtd.html">Validation & DTDs</a> </li> <li> <a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a> </li> <li> <a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a> </li> <li> <a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a> </li> <li> <a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a> </li> <li> <a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</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://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&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></p> <p>Libxml is the XML C library developed 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 brackets. HTML is the most well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in other environments.</p> <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p> <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages:</p> <ul><li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li> <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li> <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> : Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li> <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li> <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li> <li>most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li> <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li> <li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8] and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a> [UTF-16] core encodings</li> <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li> <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html</a></li> <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a> and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n</a></li> <li>Relax NG Committee Specification 3 December 2001 <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html</a></li> <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May 2001</a> except the base64Binary and hexBinary types</li> </ul> <p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all 1800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests Suite</a>.</p> <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p> <ul><li>Document Object Model (DOM) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/</a> it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of libxml2</li> <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> : libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li> <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> : HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li> <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat versions</li> <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to XML</li> </ul> <p>A partial implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part 1: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any conformance statement about it at the moment.</p> <p>Separate documents:</p> <ul><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for libxml2</li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a> : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li> <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li> <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active projects.</li> </ul> <p>Results of the <a href="http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html">xmlbench benchmark</a> on sourceforge 19 March 2003 (smaller is better):</p> <p align="center"> <img src="benchmark.gif" alt="benchmark results for Expat Xerces libxml2 Oracle and Sun toolkits" /> </p> <p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p> <p> <a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>