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- <H1>expat - XML Parser Toolkit</H1>
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- <H3>Version 19990728</H3>
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- <P>Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 James Clark. Expat is subject to the <A
- HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1_1Final.html">Mozilla Public
- License Version 1.1</A>. Alternatively you may use expat under the <A
- href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
- License</A> instead. Please contact me if you wish to negotiate an
- alternative license.</P>
-
- <P>This is a test version of expat which adds support for parsing
- external DTDs and parameter entities. Compiling with -DXML_DTD
- enables this support. There's a new <CODE>-p</CODE> option for xmlwf
- which will cause it to process external DTDs and parameter entities;
- this implies the <CODE>-x</CODE> option. See the comment above
- <CODE>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</CODE> in <CODE>xmlparse.h</CODE> for
- the API addition that enables this.</P>
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- <P>Expat is an <A
- HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210">XML 1.0</A> parser
- written in C. It aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a
- validating XML processor. The current production version of expat can
- be downloaded from <A href = "ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip"
- >ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip</A>.</P>
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- <P>The directory <SAMP>xmltok</SAMP> contains a low-level library for
- tokenizing XML. The interface is documented in
- <SAMP>xmltok/xmltok.h</SAMP>.</P>
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- <P>The directory <SAMP>xmlparse</SAMP> contains an XML parser library
- which is built on top of the <SAMP>xmltok</SAMP> library. The
- interface is documented in <SAMP>xmlparse/xmlparse.h</SAMP>. The
- directory <SAMP>sample</SAMP> contains a simple example program using
- this interface; <SAMP>sample/build.bat</SAMP> is a batch file to build
- the example using Visual C++.</P>
-
- <P>The directory <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP> contains the <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP>
- application, which uses the <SAMP>xmlparse</SAMP> library. The
- arguments to <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP> are one or more files which are each
- to be checked for well-formedness. An option <SAMP>-d
- <VAR>dir</VAR></SAMP> can be specified; for each well-formed input
- file the corresponding <A
- href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html">canonical XML</A> will
- be written to <SAMP>dir/<VAR>f</VAR></SAMP>, where
- <SAMP><VAR>f</VAR></SAMP> is the filename (without any path) of the
- input file. A <CODE>-x</CODE> option will cause references to
- external general entities to be processed. A <CODE>-s</CODE> option
- will make documents that are not standalone cause an error (a document
- is considered standalone if either it is intrinsically standalone
- because it has no external subset and no references to parameter
- entities in the internal subset or it is declared as standalone in the
- XML declaration).</P>
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- <P>The <SAMP>bin</SAMP> directory contains Win32 executables. The
- <SAMP>lib</SAMP> directory contains Win32 import libraries.</P>
-
- <P>Answers to some frequently asked questions about expat can be found
- in the <A HREF="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expatfaq.html">expat
- FAQ</A>.</P>
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