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Added libiconv library info, Jon <dissy@netset.com>, Daniel.

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<html>
<head>
<title>Libxml Frequently asqued Questions</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya V2.1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya V3.2.1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
</head>
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<p>Most linux and Bsd distribution includes libxml, this is probably the
safer way for end-users</p>
<p>David Doolin provides precompiled Windows versions at <a
href="http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/
">http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/</a></p>
href="http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/ ">http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~doolin/code/libxmlwin32/</a></p>
</li>
<li><em>I see libxml and libxml2 releases, which one should I install ?</em>
<ul>
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included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't need to
be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's now <a
href="http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html">part of
the official UNIX</a> specification, though I could not find a home
page for the project.</li>
the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a
href="http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html">implementation
of the library</a> which source can be found <a
href="ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/">here</a>. </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><em>The Makefile for the example gjobread is not generated</em>
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all: gjobread
clean:
&lt;TAB>@(rm -f gjobread gjobread.o)
&lt;TAB&gt;@(rm -f gjobread gjobread.o)
gjobread.o : gjobread.c
&lt;TAB>$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c gjobread.c
&lt;TAB&gt;$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c gjobread.c
gjobread: gjobread.o
&lt;TAB>$(CC) -o gjobread gjobread.o $(LDFLAGS)</pre>
&lt;TAB&gt;$(CC) -o gjobread gjobread.o $(LDFLAGS)</pre>
</li>
<li><em>libxml does not compile with HP-UX's optional ANSI-C compiler</em>
<p>this is due to macro limitations. Try to add " -Wp,-H16800 -Ae" to the
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<p>The source code you are using has been <a
href="upgrade.html">upgraded</a> to be able to compile with both libxml
and libxml2, but you need to install a more recent version: libxml(-devel)
>= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) >= 2.1.0</p>
&gt;= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) &gt;= 2.1.0</p>
</li>
<li><em>XPath implementation looks seriously broken</em>
<p>True, it's incomplete and the version released in 2.0.0 was nearly
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</li>
<li><em>The example provided in the web page does not compile</em>
<p>It's hard to maintain the documentation in sync with the code
&lt;grin/> ...</p>
&lt;grin/&gt; ...</p>
<p>Check the previous points 1/ and 2/ raised before, and send
patches.</p>
</li>
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<p>Ideally a libxml book would be nice. I have no such plan ... But you
can:</p>
<ul>
<li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing generated
doc</a></li>
<li>check more deeply the <a href="html/libxml-lib.html">existing
generated doc</a></li>
<li>looks for examples of use for libxml function using the Gnome code
for example the following will query the full Gnome CVs base for the
use of the <strong>xmlAddChild()</strong> function:
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could cure this :-)</p>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=gnome-xml">Browse
href="http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&amp;dir=gnome-xml">Browse
the libxml source</a>, I try to write code as clean and documented as
possible, so looking at it may be helpful</li>
</ul>
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platforms, including embedded systems. I don't intend to convert to
C++.</p>
<p>There is however a C++ wrapper provided by Ari Johnson
&lt;ari@btigate.com> which may fullfill your needs:</p>
&lt;ari@btigate.com&gt; which may fullfill your needs:</p>
<p>Website: <a
href="http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/">http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/</a></p>
<p>Download: <a
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document:</p>
<pre>xmlDocPtr doc; /* your existing document */
xmlDtdPtr dtd = xmlParseDTD(NULL, filename_of_dtd); /* parse the DTD */
dtd->name = xmlStrDup((xmlChar*)"root_name"); /* use the given root */
dtd-&gt;name = xmlStrDup((xmlChar*)"root_name"); /* use the given root */
doc->intSubset = dtd;
if (doc->children == NULL) xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)doc, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc->children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
doc-&gt;intSubset = dtd;
if (doc-&gt;children == NULL) xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)doc, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc-&gt;children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
</pre>
</li>
<li>etc ...</li>
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