libxml(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 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 that of another XML parser library called  expat.
       NOTE:  SAX,  the  Simple  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

       /usr/lib/libxml2.so   shareable library

       /usr/bin/xmlcatalog   binary application for parsing and manipulating XML or SGML catalog files

       /usr/bin/xmllint      binary application for parsing XML files

       /usr/bin/xml2-config  binary application for printing library configuration

       /usr/include/libxml2  header files

AUTHORS

       Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com).  If you download and install this package please send the author email.  Manual page by Ziying Sher-
       win (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

SEE ALSO

       xmlcatalog(1), xmllint(1), xml2-config(1).

NOTES

       Source for libxml is available on http://opensolaris.org.  Documentation for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/

								    23 May 2002 							 libxml(3)