06-28-2011
Oh.. I forgot to qualify my post above as mainly focused on "closed systems"....... it gets more interesting when we discuss "open systems", "living systems", "complex systems", etc.
Naturally, this is an area I am always keenly interested in.... and I tend to think in terms of "systems theory" when looking at situations and things. I even view all belief systems (religions, for example) as "systems" as well as nations, governments, markets, and more.
I think it is good to discuss these topics in our forums, as long as we discuss them through the lens of a technologist or scientist, and not via irrational thoughts based on fear and other emotions that lead to irrational thinking and human conflict.
This has always been the philosophy here at these forums.
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libxml
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 expat(1). 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 pro-
cessor.
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
/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)