RubyGems - gstreamer - Versions diffs - 1.2.1-x86-mingw32 → 1.2.2-x86-mingw32 - Mend

gstreamer 1.2.1-x86-mingw32 → 1.2.2-x86-mingw32

Files changed (671) hide show

data/vendor/local/share/doc/libxml2-2.7.7/html/DOM.gif DELETED Viewed

Binary file

data/vendor/local/share/doc/libxml2-2.7.7/html/FAQ.html DELETED Viewed

@@ -1,282 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" /><style type="text/css">
-TD {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-BODY {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; margin-top: 2em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em}
-H1 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-H2 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-H3 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline }
-</style><title>FAQ</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>FAQ</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Table of Contents:</p><ul><li><a href="FAQ.html#License">License(s)</a></li>
-  <li><a href="FAQ.html#Installati">Installation</a></li>
-  <li><a href="FAQ.html#Compilatio">Compilation</a></li>
-  <li><a href="FAQ.html#Developer">Developer corner</a></li>
-</ul><h3><a name="License" id="License">License</a>(s)</h3><ol><li><em>Licensing Terms for libxml</em>
-    <p>libxml2 is released under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
-    License</a>; see the file Copyright in the distribution for the precise
-    wording</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>Can I embed libxml2 in a proprietary application ?</em>
-    <p>Yes. The MIT License allows you to keep proprietary the changes you
-    made to libxml, but it would be graceful to send-back bug fixes and
-    improvements as patches for possible incorporation in the main
-    development tree.</p>
-  </li>
-</ol><h3><a name="Installati" id="Installati">Installation</a></h3><ol><li><strong><span style="background-color: #FF0000">Do Not Use
-    libxml1</span></strong>, use libxml2</li>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>Where can I get libxml</em> ?
-    <p>The original distribution comes from <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml2/2.6/">gnome.org</a></p>
-    <p>Most Linux and BSD distributions include libxml, this is probably the
-    safer way for end-users to use libxml.</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>
-  </li>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>I see libxml and libxml2 releases, which one should I install ?</em>
-    <ul><li>If you are not constrained by backward compatibility issues with
-        existing applications, install libxml2 only</li>
-      <li>If you are not doing development, you can safely install both.
-        Usually the packages <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml.html">libxml</a> and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2.html">libxml2</a> are
-        compatible (this is not the case for development packages).</li>
-      <li>If you are a developer and your system provides separate packaging
-        for shared libraries and the development components, it is possible
-        to install libxml and libxml2, and also <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml-devel.html">libxml-devel</a>
-        and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libxml2-devel.html">libxml2-devel</a>
-        too for libxml2 &gt;= 2.3.0</li>
-      <li>If you are developing a new application, please develop against
-        libxml2(-devel)</li>
-    </ul></li>
-  <li><em>I can't install the libxml package, it conflicts with libxml0</em>
-    <p>You probably have an old libxml0 package used to provide the shared
-    library for libxml.so.0, you can probably safely remove it. The libxml
-    packages provided on <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org</a> provide
-    libxml.so.0</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I can't install the libxml(2) RPM package due to failed
-    dependencies</em>
-    <p>The most generic solution is to re-fetch the latest src.rpm , and
-    rebuild it locally with</p>
-    <p><code>rpm --rebuild libxml(2)-xxx.src.rpm</code>.</p>
-    <p>If everything goes well it will generate two binary rpm packages (one
-    providing the shared libs and xmllint, and the other one, the -devel
-    package, providing includes, static libraries and scripts needed to build
-    applications with libxml(2)) that you can install locally.</p>
-  </li>
-</ol><h3><a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h3><ol><li><em>What is the process to compile libxml2 ?</em>
-    <p>As most UNIX libraries libxml2 follows the "standard":</p>
-    <p><code>gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code></p>
-    <p><code>cd libxml-xxxx</code></p>
-    <p><code>./configure --help</code></p>
-    <p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p>
-    <p><code>./configure [possible options]</code></p>
-    <p><code>make</code></p>
-    <p><code>make install</code></p>
-    <p>At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
-    update your list of installed shared libs.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml2 ?</em>
-    <p>Libxml2 does not require any other library, the normal C ANSI API
-    should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you may
-    find).</p>
-    <p>However if found at configuration time libxml2 will detect and use the
-    following libs:</p>
-    <ul><li><a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">libz</a> : a
-        highly portable and available widely compression library.</li>
-      <li>iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It is
-        included by default in recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't need to
-        be installed specifically on Linux. It now seems a <a href="http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html">part
-        of the official UNIX</a> specification. Here is one <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/">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>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>Make check fails on some platforms</em>
-    <p>Sometimes the regression tests' results don't completely match the
-    value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print the
-    delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation process;
-    if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem.</p>
-    <p>Sometimes (especially on Solaris) make checks fail due to limitations
-    in make. Try using GNU-make instead.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I use the SVN version and there is no configure script</em>
-    <p>The configure script (and other Makefiles) are generated. Use the
-    autogen.sh script to regenerate the configure script and Makefiles,
-    like:</p>
-    <p><code>./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-shared</code></p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I have troubles when running make tests with gcc-3.0</em>
-    <p>It seems the initial release of gcc-3.0 has a problem with the
-    optimizer which miscompiles the URI module. Please use another
-    compiler.</p>
-  </li>
-</ol><h3><a name="Developer" id="Developer">Developer</a> corner</h3><ol><li><em>Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxml2</em>
-    <p>Usually the problem comes from the fact that the compiler doesn't get
-    the right compilation or linking flags. There is a small shell script
-    <code>xml2-config</code> which is installed as part of libxml2 usual
-    install process which provides those flags. Use</p>
-    <p><code>xml2-config --cflags</code></p>
-    <p>to get the compilation flags and</p>
-    <p><code>xml2-config --libs</code></p>
-    <p>to get the linker flags. Usually this is done directly from the
-    Makefile as:</p>
-    <p><code>CFLAGS=`xml2-config --cflags`</code></p>
-    <p><code>LIBS=`xml2-config --libs`</code></p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I want to install my own copy of libxml2 in my home directory and
-    link my programs against it, but it doesn't work</em>
-    <p>There are many different ways to accomplish this.  Here is one way to
-    do this under Linux.  Suppose your home directory is <code>/home/user.
-    </code>Then:</p>
-    <ul><li>Create a subdirectory, let's call it <code>myxml</code></li>
-      <li>unpack the libxml2 distribution into that subdirectory</li>
-      <li>chdir into the unpacked distribution
-        (<code>/home/user/myxml/libxml2 </code>)</li>
-      <li>configure the library using the "<code>--prefix</code>" switch,
-        specifying an installation subdirectory in
-        <code>/home/user/myxml</code>, e.g.
-        <p><code>./configure --prefix /home/user/myxml/xmlinst</code> {other
-        configuration options}</p>
-      </li>
-      <li>now run <code>make</code> followed by <code>make install</code></li>
-      <li>At this point, the installation subdirectory contains the complete
-        "private" include files, library files and binary program files (e.g.
-        xmllint), located in
-        <p><code>/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/lib,
-        /home/user/myxml/xmlinst/include </code> and <code>
-        /home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin</code></p>
-        respectively.</li>
-      <li>In order to use this "private" library, you should first add it to
-        the beginning of your default PATH (so that your own private program
-        files such as xmllint will be used instead of the normal system
-        ones).  To do this, the Bash command would be
-        <p><code>export PATH=/home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin:$PATH</code></p>
-      </li>
-      <li>Now suppose you have a program <code>test1.c</code> that you would
-        like to compile with your "private" library.  Simply compile it using
-        the command
-        <p><code>gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` -o test test.c</code></p>
-        Note that, because your PATH has been set with <code>
-        /home/user/myxml/xmlinst/bin</code> at the beginning, the xml2-config
-        program which you just installed will be used instead of the system
-        default one, and this will <em>automatically</em> get the correct
-        libraries linked with your program.</li>
-    </ul></li>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>xmlDocDump() generates output on one line.</em>
-    <p>Libxml2 will not <strong>invent</strong> spaces in the content of a
-    document since <strong>all spaces in the content of a document are
-    significant</strong>. If you build a tree from the API and want
-    indentation:</p>
-    <ol><li>the correct way is to generate those yourself too.</li>
-      <li>the dangerous way is to ask libxml2 to add those blanks to your
-        content <strong>modifying the content of your document in the
-        process</strong>. The result may not be what you expect. There is
-        <strong>NO</strong> way to guarantee that such a modification won't
-        affect other parts of the content of your document. See <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlKeepBlanksDefault">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
-        ()</a> and <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlSaveFormatFile">xmlSaveFormatFile
-        ()</a></li>
-    </ol></li>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>Extra nodes in the document:</em>
-    <p><em>For an XML file as below:</em></p>
-    <pre>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
-&lt;PLAN xmlns="http://www.argus.ca/autotest/1.0/"&gt;
-&lt;NODE CommFlag="0"/&gt;
-&lt;NODE CommFlag="1"/&gt;
-&lt;/PLAN&gt;</pre>
-    <p><em>after parsing it with the function
-    pxmlDoc=xmlParseFile(...);</em></p>
-    <p><em>I want to the get the content of the first node (node with the
-    CommFlag="0")</em></p>
-    <p><em>so I did it as following;</em></p>
-    <pre>xmlNodePtr pnode;
-pnode=pxmlDoc-&gt;children-&gt;children;</pre>
-    <p><em>but it does not work. If I change it to</em></p>
-    <pre>pnode=pxmlDoc-&gt;children-&gt;children-&gt;next;</pre>
-    <p><em>then it works.  Can someone explain it to me.</em></p>
-    <p></p>
-    <p>In XML all characters in the content of the document are significant
-    <strong>including blanks and formatting line breaks</strong>.</p>
-    <p>The extra nodes you are wondering about are just that, text nodes with
-    the formatting spaces which are part of the document but that people tend
-    to forget. There is a function <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html">xmlKeepBlanksDefault
-    ()</a>  to remove those at parse time, but that's an heuristic, and its
-    use should be limited to cases where you are certain there is no
-    mixed-content in the document.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I get compilation errors of existing code like when accessing
-    <strong>root</strong> or <strong>child fields</strong> of nodes.</em>
-    <p>You are compiling code developed for libxml version 1 and using a
-    libxml2 development environment. Either switch back to libxml v1 devel or
-    even better fix the code to compile with libxml2 (or both) by <a href="upgrade.html">following the instructions</a>.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>I get compilation errors about non existing
-    <strong>xmlRootNode</strong> or <strong>xmlChildrenNode</strong>
-    fields.</em>
-    <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) &gt;= 1.8.8 or libxml2(-devel) &gt;= 2.1.0</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>Random crashes in threaded applications</em>
-    <p>Read and follow all advices on the <a href="threads.html">thread
-    safety</a> page, and make 100% sure you never call xmlCleanupParser()
-    while the library or an XML document might still be in use by another
-    thread.</p>
-  </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/&gt; ...</p>
-    <p>Check the previous points 1/ and 2/ raised before, and please send
-    patches.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>Where can I get more examples and information than provided on the
-    web page?</em>
-    <p>Ideally a libxml2 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>have a look at <a href="examples/index.html">the set of
-        examples</a>.</li>
-      <li>look for examples of use for libxml2 function using the Gnome code
-          or by asking on Google.</li>
-      <li><a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/">Browse
-        the libxml2 source</a> , I try to write code as clean and documented
-        as possible, so looking at it may be helpful. In particular the code
-        of <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/xmllint.c?view=markup">xmllint.c</a> and of the various testXXX.c test programs should
-        provide good examples of how to do things with the library.</li>
-    </ul></li>
-  <p></p>
-  <li><em>What about C++ ?</em>
-    <p>libxml2 is written in pure C in order to allow easy reuse on a number
-    of platforms, including embedded systems. I don't intend to convert to
-    C++.</p>
-    <p>There is however a C++ wrapper which may fulfill your needs:</p>
-    <ul><li>by Ari Johnson &lt;ari@btigate.com&gt;:
-        <p>Website: <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
-        <p>Download: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999</a></p>
-      </li>
-    </ul></li>
-  <li><em>How to validate a document a posteriori ?</em>
-    <p>It is possible to validate documents which had not been validated at
-    initial parsing time or documents which have been built from scratch
-    using the API. Use the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidateDtd">xmlValidateDtd()</a>
-    function. It is also possible to simply add a DTD to an existing
-    document:</p>
-    <pre>xmlDocPtr doc; /* your existing document */
-xmlDtdPtr dtd = xmlParseDTD(NULL, filename_of_dtd); /* parse the DTD */
-        dtd-&gt;name = xmlStrDup((xmlChar*)"root_name"); /* use the given root */
-        doc-&gt;intSubset = dtd;
-        if (doc-&gt;children == NULL) xmlAddChild((xmlNodePtr)doc, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
-        else xmlAddPrevSibling(doc-&gt;children, (xmlNodePtr)dtd);
-          </pre>
-  </li>
-  <li><em>So what is this funky "xmlChar" used all the time?</em>
-    <p>It is a null terminated sequence of utf-8 characters. And only utf-8!
-    You need to convert strings encoded in different ways to utf-8 before
-    passing them to the API.  This can be accomplished with the iconv library
-    for instance.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li>etc ...</li>
-</ol><p></p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>

data/vendor/local/share/doc/libxml2-2.7.7/html/Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif DELETED Viewed

Binary file

data/vendor/local/share/doc/libxml2-2.7.7/html/Libxml2-Logo-90x34.gif DELETED Viewed

Binary file

data/vendor/local/share/doc/libxml2-2.7.7/html/encoding.html DELETED Viewed

@@ -1,206 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" /><style type="text/css">
-TD {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-BODY {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; margin-top: 2em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em}
-H1 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-H2 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-H3 {font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica}
-A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration: underline }
-</style><title>Encodings support</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Encodings support</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>If you are not really familiar with Internationalization (usual shortcut
-is I18N) , Unicode, characters and glyphs, I suggest you read a <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode">presentation</a>
-by Tim Bray on Unicode and why you should care about it.</p><p>If you don't understand why <b>it does not make sense to have a string
-without knowing what encoding it uses</b>, then as Joel Spolsky said <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">please do not
-write another line of code until you finish reading that article.</a>. It is
-a prerequisite to understand this page, and avoid a lot of problems with
-libxml2, XML or text processing in general.</p><p>Table of Content:</p><ol><li><a href="encoding.html#What">What does internationalization support
-    mean ?</a></li>
-  <li><a href="encoding.html#internal">The internal encoding, how and
-  why</a></li>
-  <li><a href="encoding.html#implemente">How is it implemented ?</a></li>
-  <li><a href="encoding.html#Default">Default supported encodings</a></li>
-  <li><a href="encoding.html#extend">How to extend the existing
-  support</a></li>
-</ol><h3><a name="What" id="What">What does internationalization support mean ?</a></h3><p>XML was designed from the start to allow the support of any character set
-by using Unicode. Any conformant XML parser has to support the UTF-8 and
-UTF-16 default encodings which can both express the full unicode ranges. UTF8
-is a variable length encoding whose greatest points are to reuse the same
-encoding for ASCII and to save space for Western encodings, but it is a bit
-more complex to handle in practice. UTF-16 use 2 bytes per character (and
-sometimes combines two pairs), it makes implementation easier, but looks a
-bit overkill for Western languages encoding. Moreover the XML specification
-allows the document to be encoded in other encodings at the condition that
-they are clearly labeled as such. For example the following is a wellformed
-XML document encoded in ISO-8859-1 and using accentuated letters that we
-French like for both markup and content:</p><pre>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt;
-&lt;très&gt;là&lt;/très&gt;</pre><p>Having internationalization support in libxml2 means the following:</p><ul><li>the document is properly parsed</li>
-  <li>information about it's encoding is saved</li>
-  <li>it can be modified</li>
-  <li>it can be saved in its original encoding</li>
-  <li>it can also be saved in another encoding supported by libxml2 (for
-    example straight UTF8 or even an ASCII form)</li>
-</ul><p>Another very important point is that the whole libxml2 API, with the
-exception of a few routines to read with a specific encoding or save to a
-specific encoding, is completely agnostic about the original encoding of the
-document.</p><p>It should be noted too that the HTML parser embedded in libxml2 now obey
-the same rules too, the following document will be (as of 2.2.2) handled  in
-an internationalized fashion by libxml2 too:</p><pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
-                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"&gt;
-&lt;html lang="fr"&gt;
-&lt;head&gt;
-  &lt;META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
-&lt;/head&gt;
-&lt;body&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;W3C crée des standards pour le Web.&lt;/body&gt;
-&lt;/html&gt;</pre><h3><a name="internal" id="internal">The internal encoding, how and why</a></h3><p>One of the core decisions was to force all documents to be converted to a
-default internal encoding, and that encoding to be UTF-8, here are the
-rationales for those choices:</p><ul><li>keeping the native encoding in the internal form would force the libxml
-    users (or the code associated) to be fully aware of the encoding of the
-    original document, for examples when adding a text node to a document,
-    the content would have to be provided in the document encoding, i.e. the
-    client code would have to check it before hand, make sure it's conformant
-    to the encoding, etc ... Very hard in practice, though in some specific
-    cases this may make sense.</li>
-  <li>the second decision was which encoding. From the XML spec only UTF8 and
-    UTF16 really makes sense as being the two only encodings for which there
-    is mandatory support. UCS-4 (32 bits fixed size encoding) could be
-    considered an intelligent choice too since it's a direct Unicode mapping
-    support. I selected UTF-8 on the basis of efficiency and compatibility
-    with surrounding software:
-    <ul><li>UTF-8 while a bit more complex to convert from/to (i.e. slightly
-        more costly to import and export CPU wise) is also far more compact
-        than UTF-16 (and UCS-4) for a majority of the documents I see it used
-        for right now (RPM RDF catalogs, advogato data, various configuration
-        file formats, etc.) and the key point for today's computer
-        architecture is efficient uses of caches. If one nearly double the
-        memory requirement to store the same amount of data, this will trash
-        caches (main memory/external caches/internal caches) and my take is
-        that this harms the system far more than the CPU requirements needed
-        for the conversion to UTF-8</li>
-      <li>Most of libxml2 version 1 users were using it with straight ASCII
-        most of the time, doing the conversion with an internal encoding
-        requiring all their code to be rewritten was a serious show-stopper
-        for using UTF-16 or UCS-4.</li>
-      <li>UTF-8 is being used as the de-facto internal encoding standard for
-        related code like the <a href="http://www.pango.org/">pango</a>
-        upcoming Gnome text widget, and a lot of Unix code (yet another place
-        where Unix programmer base takes a different approach from Microsoft
-        - they are using UTF-16)</li>
-    </ul></li>
-</ul><p>What does this mean in practice for the libxml2 user:</p><ul><li>xmlChar, the libxml2 data type is a byte, those bytes must be assembled
-    as UTF-8 valid strings. The proper way to terminate an xmlChar * string
-    is simply to append 0 byte, as usual.</li>
-  <li>One just need to make sure that when using chars outside the ASCII set,
-    the values has been properly converted to UTF-8</li>
-</ul><h3><a name="implemente" id="implemente">How is it implemented ?</a></h3><p>Let's describe how all this works within libxml, basically the I18N
-(internationalization) support get triggered only during I/O operation, i.e.
-when reading a document or saving one. Let's look first at the reading
-sequence:</p><ol><li>when a document is processed, we usually don't know the encoding, a
-    simple heuristic allows to detect UTF-16 and UCS-4 from encodings where
-    the ASCII range (0-0x7F) maps with ASCII</li>
-  <li>the xml declaration if available is parsed, including the encoding
-    declaration. At that point, if the autodetected encoding is different
-    from the one declared a call to xmlSwitchEncoding() is issued.</li>
-  <li>If there is no encoding declaration, then the input has to be in either
-    UTF-8 or UTF-16, if it is not then at some point when processing the
-    input, the converter/checker of UTF-8 form will raise an encoding error.
-    You may end-up with a garbled document, or no document at all ! Example:
-    <pre>~/XML -&gt; ./xmllint err.xml
-err.xml:1: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
-&lt;très&gt;là&lt;/très&gt;
-   ^
-err.xml:1: error: Bytes: 0xE8 0x73 0x3E 0x6C
-&lt;très&gt;là&lt;/très&gt;
-   ^</pre>
-  </li>
-  <li>xmlSwitchEncoding() does an encoding name lookup, canonicalize it, and
-    then search the default registered encoding converters for that encoding.
-    If it's not within the default set and iconv() support has been compiled
-    it, it will ask iconv for such an encoder. If this fails then the parser
-    will report an error and stops processing:
-    <pre>~/XML -&gt; ./xmllint err2.xml
-err2.xml:1: error: Unsupported encoding UnsupportedEnc
-&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UnsupportedEnc"?&gt;
-                                             ^</pre>
-  </li>
-  <li>From that point the encoder processes progressively the input (it is
-    plugged as a front-end to the I/O module) for that entity. It captures
-    and converts on-the-fly the document to be parsed to UTF-8. The parser
-    itself just does UTF-8 checking of this input and process it
-    transparently. The only difference is that the encoding information has
-    been added to the parsing context (more precisely to the input
-    corresponding to this entity).</li>
-  <li>The result (when using DOM) is an internal form completely in UTF-8
-    with just an encoding information on the document node.</li>
-</ol><p>Ok then what happens when saving the document (assuming you
-collected/built an xmlDoc DOM like structure) ? It depends on the function
-called, xmlSaveFile() will just try to save in the original encoding, while
-xmlSaveFileTo() and xmlSaveFileEnc() can optionally save to a given
-encoding:</p><ol><li>if no encoding is given, libxml2 will look for an encoding value
-    associated to the document and if it exists will try to save to that
-    encoding,
-    <p>otherwise everything is written in the internal form, i.e. UTF-8</p>
-  </li>
-  <li>so if an encoding was specified, either at the API level or on the
-    document, libxml2 will again canonicalize the encoding name, lookup for a
-    converter in the registered set or through iconv. If not found the
-    function will return an error code</li>
-  <li>the converter is placed before the I/O buffer layer, as another kind of
-    buffer, then libxml2 will simply push the UTF-8 serialization to through
-    that buffer, which will then progressively be converted and pushed onto
-    the I/O layer.</li>
-  <li>It is possible that the converter code fails on some input, for example
-    trying to push an UTF-8 encoded Chinese character through the UTF-8 to
-    ISO-8859-1 converter won't work. Since the encoders are progressive they
-    will just report the error and the number of bytes converted, at that
-    point libxml2 will decode the offending character, remove it from the
-    buffer and replace it with the associated charRef encoding &amp;#123; and
-    resume the conversion. This guarantees that any document will be saved
-    without losses (except for markup names where this is not legal, this is
-    a problem in the current version, in practice avoid using non-ascii
-    characters for tag or attribute names). A special "ascii" encoding name
-    is used to save documents to a pure ascii form can be used when
-    portability is really crucial</li>
-</ol><p>Here are a few examples based on the same test document:</p><pre>~/XML -&gt; ./xmllint isolat1
-&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt;
-&lt;très&gt;là&lt;/très&gt;
-~/XML -&gt; ./xmllint --encode UTF-8 isolat1
-&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
-&lt;trÃ¨s&gt;lÃ �&lt;/trÃ¨s&gt;
-~/XML -&gt; </pre><p>The same processing is applied (and reuse most of the code) for HTML I18N
-processing. Looking up and modifying the content encoding is a bit more
-difficult since it is located in a &lt;meta&gt; tag under the &lt;head&gt;,
-so a couple of functions htmlGetMetaEncoding() and htmlSetMetaEncoding() have
-been provided. The parser also attempts to switch encoding on the fly when
-detecting such a tag on input. Except for that the processing is the same
-(and again reuses the same code).</p><h3><a name="Default" id="Default">Default supported encodings</a></h3><p>libxml2 has a set of default converters for the following encodings
-(located in encoding.c):</p><ol><li>UTF-8 is supported by default (null handlers)</li>
-  <li>UTF-16, both little and big endian</li>
-  <li>ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) covering most western languages</li>
-  <li>ASCII, useful mostly for saving</li>
-  <li>HTML, a specific handler for the conversion of UTF-8 to ASCII with HTML
-    predefined entities like &amp;copy; for the Copyright sign.</li>
-</ol><p>More over when compiled on an Unix platform with iconv support the full
-set of encodings supported by iconv can be instantly be used by libxml. On a
-linux machine with glibc-2.1 the list of supported encodings and aliases fill
-3 full pages, and include UCS-4, the full set of ISO-Latin encodings, and the
-various Japanese ones.</p><p>To convert from the UTF-8 values returned from the API to another encoding
-then it is possible to use the function provided from <a href="html/libxml-encoding.html">the encoding module</a> like <a href="html/libxml-encoding.html#UTF8Toisolat1">UTF8Toisolat1</a>, or use the
-POSIX <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html">iconv()</a>
-API directly.</p><h4>Encoding aliases</h4><p>From 2.2.3, libxml2 has support to register encoding names aliases. The
-goal is to be able to parse document whose encoding is supported but where
-the name differs (for example from the default set of names accepted by
-iconv). The following functions allow to register and handle new aliases for
-existing encodings. Once registered libxml2 will automatically lookup the
-aliases when handling a document:</p><ul><li>int xmlAddEncodingAlias(const char *name, const char *alias);</li>
-  <li>int xmlDelEncodingAlias(const char *alias);</li>
-  <li>const char * xmlGetEncodingAlias(const char *alias);</li>
-  <li>void xmlCleanupEncodingAliases(void);</li>
-</ul><h3><a name="extend" id="extend">How to extend the existing support</a></h3><p>Well adding support for new encoding, or overriding one of the encoders
-(assuming it is buggy) should not be hard, just write input and output
-conversion routines to/from UTF-8, and register them using
-xmlNewCharEncodingHandler(name, xxxToUTF8, UTF8Toxxx),  and they will be
-called automatically if the parser(s) encounter such an encoding name
-(register it uppercase, this will help). The description of the encoders,
-their arguments and expected return values are described in the encoding.h
-header.</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>