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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
+    <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" />
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-<title>The XML C library for Gnome</title>
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-<td width="180">
-<a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo"></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo"></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo"></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo"></a></div>
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-<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
-<h2>libxml</h2>
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-<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
-<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr>
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-<input name="query" type="TEXT" size="20" value=""><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ...">
-</form>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
-<li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li>
-<li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li>
-<li><a href="docs.html">Documentation</a></li>
-<li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li>
-<li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li>
-<li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
-<li><a href="news.html">News</a></li>
-<li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li>
-<li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li>
-<li><a href="python.html">Python and bindings</a></li>
-<li><a href="architecture.html">libxml architecture</a></li>
-<li><a href="tree.html">The tree output</a></li>
-<li><a href="interface.html">The SAX interface</a></li>
-<li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li>
-<li><a href="xmlmem.html">Memory Management</a></li>
-<li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li>
-<li><a href="xmlio.html">I/O Interfaces</a></li>
-<li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li>
-<li><a href="library.html">The parser interfaces</a></li>
-<li><a href="entities.html">Entities or no entities</a></li>
-<li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li>
-<li><a href="upgrade.html">Upgrading 1.x code</a></li>
-<li><a href="threads.html">Thread safety</a></li>
-<li><a href="DOM.html">DOM Principles</a></li>
-<li><a href="example.html">A real example</a></li>
-<li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li>
-<li><a href="xmlreader.html">The Reader Interface</a></li>
-<li><a href="tutorial/index.html">Tutorial</a></li>
-<li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li>
-<li>
-<a href="xml.html">flat page</a>, <a href="site.xsl">stylesheet</a>
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-</table>
-<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
-<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr>
-<tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul>
-<li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li>
-<li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&amp;product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li>
-</ul></td></tr>
-</table>
-<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
-<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr>
-<tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul>
-<li><a href="APIchunk0.html">Alphabetic</a></li>
-<li><a href="APIconstructors.html">Constructors</a></li>
-<li><a href="APIfunctions.html">Functions/Types</a></li>
-<li><a href="APIfiles.html">Modules</a></li>
-<li><a href="APIsymbols.html">Symbols</a></li>
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-<p></p>
-<p>Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project.  XML itself
-is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where
-semantic and structure are added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot;
-information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most 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 other environments.</p>
-<p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
+</style>
+    <title>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</title>
+  </head>
+  <body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000">
+    <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center">
+      <tr>
+        <td width="180">
+          <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">
+            <img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" />
+          </a>
+          <a href="http://www.w3.org/Status">
+            <img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" />
+          </a>
+          <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">
+            <img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" />
+          </a>
+          <div align="left">
+            <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">
+              <img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" />
+            </a>
+          </div>
+        </td>
+        <td>
+          <table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000">
+            <tr>
+              <td>
+                <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd">
+                  <tr>
+                    <td align="center">
+                      <h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1>
+                      <h2>libxml</h2>
+                    </td>
+                  </tr>
+                </table>
+              </td>
+            </tr>
+          </table>
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center">
+      <tr>
+        <td bgcolor="#8b7765">
+          <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+            <tr>
+              <td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765">
+                <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
+                  <tr>
+                    <td>
+                      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
+                        <tr>
+                          <td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center">
+                            <center>
+                              <b>Main Menu</b>
+                            </center>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                        <tr>
+                          <td bgcolor="#fffacd">
+                            <form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get">
+                              <input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" />
+                              <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." />
+                            </form>
+                            <ul>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="index.html">Home</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="intro.html">Introduction</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="docs.html">Developer Documentation</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="help.html">How to help</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="news.html">News</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a>
+                              </li>
+                            </ul>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                      </table>
+                      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
+                        <tr>
+                          <td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center">
+                            <center>
+                              <b>Related links</b>
+                            </center>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                        <tr>
+                          <td bgcolor="#fffacd">
+                            <ul>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a>
+                              </li>
+                              <li>
+                                <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a>
+                              </li>
+                            </ul>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                      </table>
+                    </td>
+                  </tr>
+                </table>
+              </td>
+              <td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765">
+                <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%">
+                  <tr>
+                    <td>
+                      <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
+                        <tr>
+                          <td>
+                            <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
+                              <tr>
+                                <td bgcolor="#fffacd">
+                                  <p></p>
+                                  <p>Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
+(but usable outside of the Gnome platform). XML itself is a metalanguage to
+design markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are
+added to the content using extra &quot;markup&quot; information enclosed between angle
+brackets. HTML is the most 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 other environments.</p>
+                                  <p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
+without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
+CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
+                                  <p>Libxml2 implements a number of existing standards related to markup
 languages:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a>
-</li>
-  <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a>
-</li>
-  <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a>
-</li>
-  <li>
-<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
-    Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a>
-</li>
-  <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a>
-</li>
-  <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a>
-</li>
-  <li>most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a>
-</li>
-  <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a>
-</li>
+                                  <ul><li>the XML standard: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</a></li>
+  <li>Namespaces in XML: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/</a></li>
+  <li>XML Base: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> :
+    Uniform Resource Identifiers <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt</a></li>
+  <li>XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath</a></li>
+  <li>HTML4 parser: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/</a></li>
+  <li>most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr</a></li>
+  <li>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a></li>
   <li>[ISO-8859-1], <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2044.txt">rfc2044</a> [UTF-8]
     and <a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc2781.txt">rfc2781</a>
     [UTF-16] core encodings</li>
   <li>part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997</li>
-  <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>
+  <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>
   <li>Canonical XML Version 1.0: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n">http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n</a>
-    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>
-  <li>Relax NG Committee Specification 3 December 2001 <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>
+    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>
+  <li>Relax NG Committee Specification 3 December 2001 <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>
+  <li>W3C XML Schemas Part 2: Datatypes <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">REC 02 May
+    2001</a> except the base64Binary and hexBinary types</li>
 </ul>
-<p>In most cases libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively
-strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all 1800+ tests
-from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
+                                  <p>In most cases libxml2 tries to implement the specifications in a
+relatively strictly compliant way. As of release 2.4.16, libxml2 passes all
+1800+ tests from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/">OASIS XML Tests
 Suite</a>.</p>
-<p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
+                                  <p>To some extent libxml2 provides support for the following additional
 specifications but doesn't claim to implement them completely:</p>
-<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>
+                                  <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>
     it doesn't implement the API itself, gdome2 does this on top of
   libxml2</li>
-  <li>
-<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
-    libxml implements a basic FTP client code</li>
-  <li>
-<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
+  <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc959.txt">RFC 959</a> :
+    libxml2 implements a basic FTP client code</li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> :
     HTTP/1.0, again a basic HTTP client code</li>
   <li>SAX: a minimal SAX implementation compatible with early expat
   versions</li>
   <li>DocBook SGML v4: libxml2 includes a hackish parser to transition to
   XML</li>
 </ul>
-<p>A partial implementation of XML Schemas is being worked on but it would be
-far too early to make any conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
-<p>Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work
-without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows,
-CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)</p>
-<p>Separate documents:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-<a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
+                                  <p>A partial implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">XML Schemas Part
+1: Structure</a> is being worked on but it would be far too early to make any
+conformance statement about it at the moment.</p>
+                                  <p>Separate documents:</p>
+                                  <ul><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">the libxslt page</a> providing an
     implementation of XSLT 1.0 and common extensions like EXSLT for
   libxml2</li>
-  <li>
-<a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
+  <li><a href="http://www.cs.unibo.it/~casarini/gdome2/">the gdome2 page</a>
     : a standard DOM2 implementation for libxml2</li>
-  <li>
-<a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
+  <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">the XMLSec page</a>: an
     implementation of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/">W3C XML
     Digital Signature</a> for libxml2</li>
   <li>also check the related links section below for more related and active
     projects.</li>
 </ul>
-<p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p>
-<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
-</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
-</tr></table></td></tr></table>
-</body>
+                                  <p>Results of the <a href="http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark/index.html">xmlbench
+benchmark</a> on sourceforge 19 March 2003 (smaller is better):</p>
+                                  <p align="center">
+                                    <img src="benchmark.gif" alt="benchmark results for Expat Xerces libxml2 Oracle and Sun toolkits" />
+                                  </p>
+                                  <p>Logo designed by <a href="mailto:liyanage@access.ch">Marc Liyanage</a>.</p>
+                                  <p>
+                                    <a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a>
+                                  </p>
+                                </td>
+                              </tr>
+                            </table>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                      </table>
+                    </td>
+                  </tr>
+                </table>
+              </td>
+            </tr>
+          </table>
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+  </body>
 </html>