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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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