1*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<html> 2*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<head> 3*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<title>libxml2 Reference Manual</title> 5*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<meta name="generator" content="Libxml2 devhelp stylesheet"> 6*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> 7*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</head> 8*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 9*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tr valign="middle"> 10*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td> 11*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<td><a accesskey="n" href="general.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> 12*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<th width="100%" align="center">libxml2 Reference Manual</th> 13*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</tr></table> 14*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<h2><span class="refentrytitle">libxml2 Reference Manual</span></h2> 15*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project 16*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker(but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available 17*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerunder the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT 18*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLicense</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. 19*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workertext language where semantic and structure are added to the content using 20*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerextra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most 21*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerwell-known markup language. Though the library is written in C, a variety of 22*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlanguage bindings make it available in other environments.</p> 23*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup 24*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlanguages:</p> 25*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<ul> 26*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a> 27*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 28*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a> 29*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 30*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a> 31*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 32*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li> 33*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> : 34*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a> 35*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 36*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a> 37*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 38*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a> 39*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 40*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a> 41*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 42*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a> 43*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 44*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8] 45*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerand <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a> 46*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker[UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li> 47*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li> 48*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<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> 49*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 50*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a> 51*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerand 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> 52*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 53*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<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> 54*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 55*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May 56*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker2001</a> 57*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</li> 58*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker<li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> Working Draft 7 59*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerApril 2004</li> 60*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</ul> 61*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</body> 62*7c568831SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker</html> 63
