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1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2: <html> 3: <head> 4: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> 5: <title>libxml2 Reference Manual</title> 6: <meta name="generator" content="Libxml2 devhelp stylesheet"/> 7: <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/> 8: </head> 9: <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 10: <table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> 11: <tr valign="middle"> 12: <td> 13: <a accesskey="h" href="index.html"> 14: <img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"/> 15: </a> 16: </td> 17: <td> 18: <a accesskey="n" href="general.html"> 19: <img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"/> 20: </a> 21: </td> 22: <th width="100%" align="center">libxml2 Reference Manual</th> 23: </tr> 24: </table> 25: <h2> 26: <span class="refentrytitle">libxml2 Reference Manual</span> 27: </h2> 28: <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project 29: (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available 30: under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT 31: License</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. 32: text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using 33: extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most 34: well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in 35: other environments.</p> 36: <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup 37: languages:</p> 38: <ul> 39: <li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li> 40: <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li> 41: <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li> 42: <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> : 43: Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li> 44: <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li> 45: <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li> 46: <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li> 47: <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li> 48: <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8] 49: and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a> 50: [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li> 51: <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li> 52: <li>XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001: <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html</a></li> 53: <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a> 54: and the Exclusive XML Canonicalization CR draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n</a></li> 55: <li>Relax NG, ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003, <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html</a></li> 56: <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May 57: 2001</a></li> 58: <li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> Working Draft 7 59: April 2004</li> 60: </ul> 61: <p> As a result the <a href="general.html">libxml2 API</a> is very 62: large. If you get lost searching for some specific API use 63: <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/search.php">the online search 64: engine</a> hosted on <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org</a> 65: the libxml2 and libxslt project page. </p> 66: </body> 67: </html>