libxml(3)              FreeBSD 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
       representation 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 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
       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a
                             static library

       /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so
                             shared 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)