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1.1       misho       1: .TH libxml 3 "12 April 2000"
                      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. 
1.1.1.2 ! misho       8: Its internal document representation is as close as possible to the 
1.1       misho       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 
                     19: .IR expat (1).
                     20: NOTE:
                     21: .IR SAX , 
                     22: the Simple API for XML,
                     23: is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing,
                     24: developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, 
                     25: currently hosted by OASIS.
                     26: The
                     27: .I expat
                     28: library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C,
                     29: which aims to be fully conforming. 
                     30: It is currently not a validating XML processor.
                     31: .LP
                     32: The
                     33: .I libxml 
                     34: library now includes a nearly complete 
                     35: .I XPath 
                     36: implementation. 
                     37: The
                     38: .I XPath
                     39: (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an 
                     40: XML document,
                     41: designed to be used by both 
                     42: .I XSLT 
                     43: and 
                     44: .IR XPointer .
                     45: .LP
                     46: The
                     47: .I libxml 
                     48: library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and 
                     49: .IR html . 
                     50: .SH FILES
                     51: .TP 2.2i
                     52: .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a
                     53: static library
                     54: .TP
                     55: .B /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so
                     56: shared library
                     57: .TP
                     58: .B /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
                     59: binary application for parsing XML files
                     60: .SH AUTHORS
                     61: Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com).
                     62: Red Hat Inc.
                     63: Manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov),
                     64: Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
                     65: U.S. National Library of Medicine.
                     66: .SH SEE ALSO
                     67: .IR xmllint (1),
                     68: .IR libxslt (3),
                     69: .IR libexslt (3),
                     70: .IR xsltproc (1)
                     71: .\" end of manual page