| |

|

|

|

The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome

libxml2 architecture

|

|

|

|

|

|

| Developer Menu | |

• Main Menu
• Reference Manual
• Code Examples
• XML Guidelines
• Tutorial
• The Reader Interface
• ChangeLog
• XSLT
• Python and bindings
• libxml2 architecture
• The tree output
• The SAX interface
• Memory Management
• I/O Interfaces
• The parser interfaces
• Entities or no entities
• Namespaces
• Upgrading 1.x code
• Thread safety
• DOM Principles
• A real example
• flat page, stylesheet

|

| API Indexes | |

• Alphabetic
• Constructors
• Functions/Types
• Modules
• Symbols

|

| Related links | |

• Mail archive
• XSLT libxslt
• DOM gdome2
• XML-DSig xmlsec
• FTP
• Windows binaries
• Solaris binaries
• MacOsX binaries
• lxml Python bindings
• Perl bindings
• C++ bindings
• PHP bindings
• Pascal bindings
• Ruby bindings
• Tcl bindings
• Bug Tracker

|

|

|

|

|

|

Libxml2 is made of multiple components; some of them are optional, and most of the block interfaces are public. The main components are:

• an Input/Output layer
• FTP and HTTP client layers (optional)
• an Internationalization layer managing the encodings support
• a URI module
• the XML parser and its basic SAX interface
• an HTML parser using the same SAX interface (optional)
• a SAX tree module to build an in-memory DOM representation
• a tree module to manipulate the DOM representation
• a validation module using the DOM representation (optional)
• an XPath module for global lookup in a DOM representation (optional)
• a debug module (optional)

Graphically this gives the following:

Daniel Veillard

|

|

|

|

|