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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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<HTML>
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<TITLE>expat</TITLE>
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<H1>expat - XML Parser Toolkit</H1>
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<H3>Version 20000421</H3>
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<P>Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center
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Ltd. Expat is freely available with source under a very liberal <a
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href="copying.txt">license</a> (the MIT license).</P>
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<P>This is a test version of expat which adds support for parsing
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external DTDs and parameter entities. Compiling with -DXML_DTD
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enables this support. There's a new <CODE>-p</CODE> option for xmlwf
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which will cause it to process external DTDs and parameter entities;
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this implies the <CODE>-x</CODE> option. See the comment above
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<CODE>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</CODE> in <CODE>xmlparse.h</CODE> for
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the API addition that enables this.</P>
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<P>Expat is an <A
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HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210">XML 1.0</A> parser
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written in C. It aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a
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validating XML processor. The current production version of expat can
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be downloaded from <A href =
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"http://www.ThaiOpenSource.com/dist/expat/expat.zip"
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>http://www.ThaiOpenSource.com/dist/expat/expat.zip</A>.</P>
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<P>The directory <SAMP>xmltok</SAMP> contains a low-level library for
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tokenizing XML. The interface is documented in
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<SAMP>xmltok/xmltok.h</SAMP>.</P>
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<P>The directory <SAMP>xmlparse</SAMP> contains an XML parser library
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which is built on top of the <SAMP>xmltok</SAMP> library. The
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interface is documented in <SAMP>xmlparse/xmlparse.h</SAMP>. The
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directory <SAMP>sample</SAMP> contains a simple example program using
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this interface; <SAMP>sample/build.bat</SAMP> is a batch file to build
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the example using Visual C++.</P>
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<P>The directory <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP> contains the <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP>
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application, which uses the <SAMP>xmlparse</SAMP> library. The
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arguments to <SAMP>xmlwf</SAMP> are one or more files which are each
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to be checked for well-formedness. An option <SAMP>-d
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<VAR>dir</VAR></SAMP> can be specified; for each well-formed input
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file the corresponding <A
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href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html">canonical XML</A> will
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be written to <SAMP>dir/<VAR>f</VAR></SAMP>, where
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<SAMP><VAR>f</VAR></SAMP> is the filename (without any path) of the
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input file. A <CODE>-x</CODE> option will cause references to
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external general entities to be processed. A <CODE>-s</CODE> option
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will make documents that are not standalone cause an error (a document
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is considered standalone if either it is intrinsically standalone
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because it has no external subset and no references to parameter
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entities in the internal subset or it is declared as standalone in the
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XML declaration).</P>
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<P>The <SAMP>bin</SAMP> directory contains Win32 executables. The
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<SAMP>lib</SAMP> directory contains Win32 import libraries.</P>
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<P>Answers to some frequently asked questions about expat can be found
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in the <A
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HREF="http://www.ThaiOpenSource.com/product/expat/expatfaq.html">expat
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FAQ</A>.</P>
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<P></P>
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<ADDRESS>
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<A HREF="mailto:jjc@ThaiOpenSource.com">James Clark</A>
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</ADDRESS>
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