1libxml(3)                  Library Functions Manual                  libxml(3)
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NAME

6       libxml - library used to parse XML files
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  libxml  library is used to parse XML files.  Its internal document
10       representation is as close as possible  to  the  DOM  (Document  Object
11       Model)  interface,  an  API  for accessing XML or HTML structured docu‐
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14       The libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, which is designed  to
15       be  compatible  with expat(1).  NOTE: SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a
16       standard interface for event-based XML  parsing,  developed  collabora‐
17       tively  by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, currently hosted by
18       OASIS.  The expat library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C, which  aims
19       to  be  fully conforming.  It is currently not a validating XML proces‐
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22       The libxml library now includes a nearly complete XPath implementation.
23       The  XPath (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an
24       XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer.
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26       The libxml library exports Push and Pull  type  parser  interfaces  for
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FILES

30       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a
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33       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so
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36       /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint
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AUTHORS

40       Daniel  Veillard  (daniel@veillard.com).   Red Hat Inc.  Manual page by
41       Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National  Center  for
42       Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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SEE ALSO

45       xmllint(1), libxslt(3), libexslt(3), xsltproc(1)
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49                                 12 April 2000                       libxml(3)
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