2000-09-29 11:44:00 -04:00
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Expat, Release 1.95.1
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This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat
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is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with
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the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when
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the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed.
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A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may
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register handlers.
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Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the
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terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed with this
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package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license.
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Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in the
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release above), are development releases and should be considered as
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beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are intended to be
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production grade software.
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To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the top
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level distribution directory:
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./configure
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There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you can
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discover by running configure with the --help option.) But the one of most
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interest is the one that sets the installation directory. By default,
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the configure script will set things up to install libexpat into
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/usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If, for example, you'd
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prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and /home/me/mystuff/include,
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you can tell configure about that with:
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./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff
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After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and
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"make install" will install things into their proper location. Note that
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you need to have write permission into the directories into which things
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will be installed.
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2000-12-27 13:08:15 -05:00
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Alternatively, on Win32 systems with Microsoft's Developer's Studio installed,
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you can simply double-click on lib/expat.dsp from Windows Explorer and build
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and install in the usual way from with DevStudio.
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As a third alternative you may choose to download expat_win32bin which has
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a pre-compiled dll in it.
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2000-09-29 11:44:00 -04:00
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A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this
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distribution.
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The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net. There are
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links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need to report
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a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also send a bug
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report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.
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Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes place
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on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list may be found
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at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss.
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