[Sussex] libXML vs libXML2

[Geoff Teale]

SLUGS,

Loz metioned something about libXML and libXML2 but didn't know the
difference.

This information is readily available at http://www.xmlsoft.org 

1. libXML2 is newer (duh!) and more full featured.

2. libXML2 has support for more W3C technologies:
	
- the XML standard: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml 
- Namespaces in XML: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ 
- XML Base: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/ 
- RFC 2396 : Uniform Resource Identifiers
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt 
- XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath 
- HTML4 parser: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ 
- most of XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr 
- XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ 
- [ISO-8859-1], rfc2044 [UTF-8] and rfc2781 [UTF-16] core encodings 
- part of SGML Open Technical Resolution TR9401:1997 
- XML Catalogs Working Draft 06 August 2001:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html 
- Canonical XML Version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n and the Exclusive
XML - Canonicalization CR draft http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n 


3. libXML2 is able to coexist with libXML.

As such any clean-room developments should probably be working with libXML2.

-- 
Geoff Teale
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
 


The above information is confidential to the addressee and may be privileged.  Unauthorised access and use is prohibited.
 
Internet communications are not secure and therefore this Company does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message.
 
If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.
 
Claybrook Computing Limited is a subsidiary of Claybrook Computing (Holdings) Limited
Registered Office: Abbey House. 282 Farnborough Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7NJ
Registered in England and Wales No 1287205
 
A Hogg Robinson plc company