libxml(3)

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✨ libxml — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to libxml(3), straight out of the Library Functions Manual 🫶 this is the whole vibe, no skips, no cap.

💖 NAME 💖

libxml — the library used to parse XML files. that's it, that's the job. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, the libxml library is literally here to parse XML files. and its internal document representation? it's as close as possible to the DOM (Document Object Model) interface, which is the API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents. it's giving "we speak fluent tree" 🌳✨

the libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, and that one is designed to be compatible with expat(1). 💀

NOTE: SAX — the Simple API for XML — is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing, developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, currently hosted by OASIS. the expat library is an XML 1.0 parser written in C, which aims to be fully conforming. it is currently not a validating XML processor. so like, know that before you come for it 🫣

and omg the libxml library now includes a nearly complete XPath implementation. XPath (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, and it's designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. main character energy fr fr 👑

the libxml library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and html. yes both. we contain multitudes 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.a — the static library 🧚
  • /depot/lib/libxml_2.0.0/libxml.so — the shared library 🦋
  • /depot/package/libxml_2.0.0/bin/xmllint — binary application for parsing XML files 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com). Red Hat Inc.

manual page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine. obsessed with the credentials ngl 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this was libxml(3) from 12 April 2000, still iconic all these years later. periodt. 💖🎀🌸

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