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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>
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