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  repesentation  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 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  inter-
     faces 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 configuration

     /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 Sherwin  (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov),  Lister  Hill
     National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National
     Library of Medicine.

SEE ALSO
     xmlcatalog(1), xmllint(1), xml2-config(1).

NOTES
     Source for libxml is  available  on  http:/opensolaris.org.



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Introduction to Library Functions                       libxml(3)



     Documentation   for   libxml   is   available   on-line   at
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