libxml

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 docu-
       ments.

       The libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, which is designed to
       be  compatible with expat(1).  NOTE: SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a
       standard interface for event-based XML parsing,	developed  collabora-
       tively 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 proces-
       sor.

       The libxml library now includes a nearly	 complete  XPath  implementa-
       tion.   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
			     shareable library

       /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
			     binary application for parsing XML files

AUTHORS
       Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com).  Red Hat Inc.  Manual  page  by
       Ziying  Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.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)