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Fred L. Drake, Jr. eb5ef0f8d9 XML_ExpatVersionInfo(): New function; returns library version as a structure that can be examined at runtime. XML_ExpatVersion(): Construct the return value from the new version information constants. XML_MAJOR_VERSION, XML_MINOR_VERSION, XML_MICRO_VERSION: New constants; these specify the version of the library in a form that can be queried by client applications at compile time. This is useful in determining if functions should be considered available (like those above).		2000-12-21 00:32:47 +00:00
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conftools	Switch to using MANIFEST to build distribution.	2000-09-28 19:47:35 +00:00
doc	Minor internal style consistency nit (indentation).	2000-12-20 22:30:54 +00:00
examples	Tell CVS to ignore generated Makefiles and working dirs used by libtool.	2000-10-30 21:25:05 +00:00
gennmtab	Merged in modifications from perl-expat. Also fiddled around with more	2000-09-21 21:20:18 +00:00
lib	XML_ExpatVersionInfo(): New function; returns library version as a	2000-12-21 00:32:47 +00:00
sample	Fix screwup in changing copyright notices	2000-04-21 04:20:31 +00:00
xmlparse	These are the first check-ins for the libexpat task: create configuration	2000-09-18 16:26:23 +00:00
xmltok	Merged in modifications from perl-expat. Also fiddled around with more	2000-09-21 21:20:18 +00:00
xmlwf	Tell CVS to ignore generated Makefiles and working dirs used by libtool.	2000-10-30 21:25:05 +00:00
.gitignore	These are the first check-ins for the libexpat task: create configuration	2000-09-18 16:26:23 +00:00
aclocal.m4	These are the first check-ins for the libexpat task: create configuration	2000-09-18 16:26:23 +00:00
Changes	Remove aborts and instead return an UNEXPECTED_STATE error.	2000-10-20 15:37:28 +00:00
config.hin	Versioning information, fill in Changes file, possible final commit before	2000-09-29 14:57:45 +00:00
configure.in	Revised fix for abort occurring with a percent followed by whitespace or	2000-10-20 15:14:36 +00:00
COPYING	These are the first check-ins for the libexpat task: create configuration	2000-09-18 16:26:23 +00:00
Makefile.in	Fixed a bug in Makefile.in that wiped out README.	2000-09-29 15:44:00 +00:00
MANIFEST	Add MANIFEST and remove expatfaq.html	2000-09-29 15:47:38 +00:00
README	Fixed a bug in Makefile.in that wiped out README.	2000-09-29 15:44:00 +00:00

README

			Expat, Release 1.95.0

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat
is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with
the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when
the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed.
A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may
register handlers.

Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the
terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed with this
package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license.

Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in the
release above), are development releases and should be considered as
beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are intended to be
production grade software.

To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the top
level distribution directory:

	./configure

There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you can
discover by running configure with the --help option.) But the one of most
interest is the one that sets the installation directory. By default,
the configure script will set things up to install libexpat into
/usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If, for example, you'd
prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and /home/me/mystuff/include,
you can tell configure about that with:

	./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff

After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and
"make install" will install things into their proper location. Note that
you need to have write permission into the directories into which things
will be installed.

A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this
distribution.

The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net. There are
links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need to report
a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also send a bug
report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.

Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes place
on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list may be found
at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss.