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| 26 | <span class="refentrytitle">libxml2 Reference Manual</span>
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| 28 | <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
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| 29 | (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available
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| 30 | under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
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| 31 | License</a>. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e.
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| 32 | text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using
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| 33 | extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most
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| 34 | well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/python.html">a variety of language bindings</a> make it available in
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| 35 | other environments.</p>
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| 36 | <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
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| 37 | languages:</p>
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| 39 | <li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
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| 40 | <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
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| 41 | <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
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| 42 | <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
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| 43 | Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
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| 44 | <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
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| 45 | <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
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| 46 | <li>XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
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| 47 | <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
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| 48 | <li>ISO-8859-x encodings, as well as <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
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| 49 | and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
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| 50 | [UTF-16] Unicode encodings, and more if using iconv support</li>
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| 51 | <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
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| 52 | <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>
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| 53 | <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
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| 54 | 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>
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| 55 | <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>
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| 56 | <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
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| 57 | 2001</a></li>
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| 58 | <li>W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> Working Draft 7
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| 59 | April 2004</li>
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| 60 | </ul>
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| 61 | <p> As a result the <a href="general.html">libxml2 API</a> is very
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| 62 | large. If you get lost searching for some specific API use
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| 63 | <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/search.php">the online search
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| 64 | engine</a> hosted on <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org</a>
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| 65 | the libxml2 and libxslt project page. </p>
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