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<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
<h2>libxml architecture</h2>
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<p>Libxml is made of multiple components; some of them are optional, and most
of the block interfaces are public. The main components are:</p>
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<li>an Input/Output layer</li>
<li>FTP and HTTP client layers (optional)</li>
<li>an Internationalization layer managing the encodings support</li>
<li>a URI module</li>
<li>the XML parser and its basic SAX interface</li>
<li>an HTML parser using the same SAX interface (optional)</li>
<li>a SAX tree module to build an in-memory DOM representation</li>
<li>a tree module to manipulate the DOM representation</li>
<li>a validation module using the DOM representation (optional)</li>
<li>an XPath module for global lookup in a DOM representation
  (optional)</li>
<li>a debug module (optional)</li>
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<p>Graphically this gives the following:</p>
<p><img src="libxml.gif" alt="a graphical view of the various"></p>
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<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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