.TH libxml 3 "23 May 2002"

.SH NAME

libxml \- library used to parse XML files

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.I  libxml

library is used to parse XML files. 

Its internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the 

.I DOM 

(Document Object Model) interface,

an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents.

.LP

The

.I libxml

library also has a 

.IR SAX -like

interface, 

which is designed to be compatible with that of another XML parser library

called 

.IR expat.

NOTE:

.IR 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

.I 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.

.LP

The

.I libxml 

library now includes a nearly complete 

.I XPath 

implementation. 

The

.I XPath

(XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an 

XML document,

designed to be used by both 

.I XSLT 

and 

.IR XPointer .

.LP

The

.I libxml 

library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and 

.IR html . 

.SH FILES

.TP 2.2i

.B /usr/lib/libxml2.so

shareable library

.TP

.B /usr/bin/xmlcatalog

binary application for parsing and manipulating XML or SGML catalog files

.TP

.B /usr/bin/xmllint

binary application for parsing XML files

.TP

.B /usr/bin/xml2-config

binary application for printing library configuration

.TP

.B /usr/include/libxml2

header files

.SH AUTHORS

Daniel Veillard ([email protected]).

If you download and install this package please send the author email.

Manual page by Ziying Sherwin ([email protected]),

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,

U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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.SH SEE ALSO

.IR xmlcatalog (1),

.IR xmllint (1),

.IR xml2-config (1).