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159: <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a>
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171: <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a>
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225: <p style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt">"Programming
226: with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2">Mark
227: Pilgrim</a></p>
228: <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
229: (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available
230: under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
231: License</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.
232: text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using
233: extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most
234: well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in
235: other environments.</p>
236: <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
237: without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
238: CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, VxWorks, ...)</p>
239: <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
240: languages:</p>
241: <ul><li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
242: <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
243: <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
244: <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
245: Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
246: <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
247: <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
248: <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
249: <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
250: <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
251: and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
252: [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li>
253: <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
254: <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>
255: <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
256: 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>
257: <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>
258: <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
259: 2001</a></li>
260: <li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> Working Draft 7
261: April 2004</li>
262: </ul>
263: <p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a
264: relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passed all
265: 1800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
266: Suite</a>.</p>
267: <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
268: specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
269: <ul><li>Document Object Model (DOM) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/</a>
270: the document model, but it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does
271: this on top of libxml2</li>
272: <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
273: libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code</li>
274: <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
275: HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
276: <li>SAX: a SAX2 like interface and a minimal SAX1 implementation compatible
277: with early expat versions</li>
278: </ul>
279: <p>A partial implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
280: 1: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
281: conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
282: <p>Separate documents:</p>
283: <ul><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
284: implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
285: libxml2</li>
286: <li><a href="http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/">the gdome2 page</a>
287: : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
288: <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
289: implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
290: Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
291: <li>also check the related links section for more related and active
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