libxml(3)                                                                                                              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 expat(1).  NOTE: SAX, the  Sim-
       ple  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 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 (danielATveillard.com).  Red Hat Inc.  Manual page by Ziying Sherwin  (sherwinATnlm.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)