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This is expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
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Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register
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handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers
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are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the
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document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of
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structures for which you may register handlers.
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Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes
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both precompiled libraries and executalbes, and source code for
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Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under
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the terms of the License contained in the file COPYING distributed
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with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium
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Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in
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the release above), are development releases and should be considered
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as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are
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intended to be production grade software.
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To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the
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top level distribution directory:
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There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you
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can discover by running configure with the --help option). But the
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one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory.
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By default, the configure script will set things up to install
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libexpat into /usr/local/lib, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and
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xmlwf into /usr/local/bin. If, for example, you'd prefer to install
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into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and
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/home/me/mystuff/bin, you can tell configure about that with:
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./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff
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After running the configure script, the "make" command will build
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things and "make install" will install things into their proper
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location. Note that you need to have write permission into the
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directories into which things will be installed.
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When building for use with C++, you may need to add additional
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compiler flags to support proper interaction with exceptions. This
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can be done by setting the CFLAGS environment variable. For example,
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when using GCC, you can use:
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CFLAGS=-fexceptions ./configure
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Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in
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"/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to
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add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch
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to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work
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properly -- appearantly it does not understand .PHONY directives). If
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you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build:
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PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make
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A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
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The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net/. There
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are links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need
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to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also
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send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.
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Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
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place on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list
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may be found at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss.
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