1 .TH libxml 3 "23 May 2002"

     2 .SH NAME

     3 libxml \- library used to parse XML files

     4 .SH DESCRIPTION

     5 The

     6 .I  libxml

     7 library is used to parse XML files. 

     8 Its internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the 

     9 .I DOM 

    10 (Document Object Model) interface,

    11 an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents.

    12 .LP

    13 The

    14 .I libxml

    15 library also has a 

    16 .IR SAX -like

    17 interface, 

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

    19 called 

    20 .IR expat.

    21 NOTE:

    22 .IR SAX , 

    23 the Simple API for XML,

    24 is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing,

    25 developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, 

    26 currently hosted by OASIS.

    27 The

    28 .I expat

    29 library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C,

    30 which aims to be fully conforming. 

    31 It is currently not a validating XML processor.

    32 .LP

    33 The

    34 .I libxml 

    35 library now includes a nearly complete 

    36 .I XPath 

    37 implementation. 

    38 The

    39 .I XPath

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

    41 XML document,

    42 designed to be used by both 

    43 .I XSLT 

    44 and 

    45 .IR XPointer .

    46 .LP

    47 The

    48 .I libxml 

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

    50 .IR html . 

    51 .SH FILES

    52 .TP 2.2i

    53 .B /usr/lib/libxml2.so

    54 shareable library

    55 .TP

    56 .B /usr/bin/xmlcatalog

    57 binary application for parsing and manipulating XML or SGML catalog files

    58 .TP

    59 .B /usr/bin/xmllint

    60 binary application for parsing XML files

    61 .TP

    62 .B /usr/bin/xml2-config

    63 binary application for printing library configuration

    64 .TP

    65 .B /usr/include/libxml2

    66 header files

    67 .SH AUTHORS

    68 Daniel Veillard ([email protected]).

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

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

    71 Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,

    72 U.S. National Library of Medicine.

    73 .\" end of manual page

    74 .SH SEE ALSO

    75 .IR xmlcatalog (1),

    76 .IR xmllint (1),

    77 .IR xml2-config (1).

    78 .SH NOTES

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

    80 Documentation for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/