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- Expat, Release 1.95.5
-
- This is Expat, a 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 before 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.
-
- Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes
- both precompiled libraries and executalbes, and source code for
- developers.
-
- 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.
-
- If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
- you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
- GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have
- autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer. Run the script like
- this:
-
- ./buildconf.sh
-
- Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
- from a source distribution.
-
- To build Expat from a source distribution, 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, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and
- xmlwf into /usr/local/bin. If, for example, you'd prefer to install
- into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and
- /home/me/mystuff/bin, 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.
-
- If you are interested in building Expat to provide document
- information in UTF-16 rather than the default UTF-8, following these
- instructions:
-
- 1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error
- strings as char), run:
-
- ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE
-
- For UTF-16 output as wchar_t (incl. version/error strings),
- run:
-
- ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fshort-wchar" \
- CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T
-
- 2. Edit the MakeFile, changing:
-
- LIBRARY = libexpat.la
-
- to:
-
- LIBRARY = libexpatw.la
-
- (Note the additional "w" in the library name.)
-
- 3. Run "make buildlib" (which builds the library only).
-
- 4. Run "make installlib" (which installs the library only).
-
- Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in
- "/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to
- add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch
- to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work
- properly -- appearantly it does not understand .PHONY directives). If
- you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build:
-
- PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make
-
- When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you
- can use the probing macro in conftools/expat.m4 to determine how to
- include Expat. See the comments at the top of that file for more
- information.
-
- A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
- distribution.
-
- The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/. 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@mail.libexpat.org.
-
- Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
- place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org. Archives of this list and
- other Expat-related lists may be found at:
-
- http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman-21/listinfo/
-