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libxml(3)                             Library Functions Manual                             libxml(3)



NAME
       libxml - library used to parse XML files

DESCRIPTION
       The  libxml  library  is used to parse XML files.  Its internal document representation 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 ex‐
       pat(1).  NOTE: SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a standard interface for event-based XML pars‐
       ing,  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  con‐
       forming.  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
       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a
                             static library

       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so
                             shared library

       /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
                             binary application for parsing XML files

AUTHORS
       Daniel  Veillard  (daniel AT veillard.com).   Red Hat Inc.  Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sher‐
       win AT nlm.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical  Communications,  U.S.  National
       Library of Medicine.

SEE ALSO
       xmllint(1), libxslt(3), libexslt(3), xsltproc(1)



                                            12 April 2000                                  libxml(3)