src/expat/README

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   2                         Expat, Release 1.95.6
   3
   4 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
   5 Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser.  This means that you register
   6 handlers with the parser before starting the parse.  These handlers
   7 are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the
   8 document being parsed.  A start tag is an example of the kind of
   9 structures for which you may register handlers.
  10
  11 Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes
  12 both precompiled libraries and executalbes, and source code for
  13 developers.
  14
  15 Expat is free software.  You may copy, distribute, and modify it under
  16 the terms of the License contained in the file COPYING distributed
  17 with this package.  This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium
  18 license.
  19
  20 Versions of Expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in
  21 the release above), are development releases and should be considered
  22 as beta software.  Releases with even minor version numbers are
  23 intended to be production grade software.
  24
  25 If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
  26 you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
  27 GNU autoconf and libtool tools.  To do this, you need to have
  28 autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer.  Run the script like
  29 this:
  30
  31         ./buildconf.sh
  32
  33 Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
  34 from a source distribution.
  35
  36 To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the
  37 configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory:
  38
  39         ./configure
  40
  41 There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you
  42 can discover by running configure with the --help option).  But the
  43 one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory.
  44 By default, the configure script will set things up to install
  45 libexpat into /usr/local/lib, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and
  46 xmlwf into /usr/local/bin.  If, for example, you'd prefer to install
  47 into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and
  48 /home/me/mystuff/bin, you can tell configure about that with:
  49
  50         ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff
  51
  52 After running the configure script, the "make" command will build
  53 things and "make install" will install things into their proper
  54 location.  Note that you need to have write permission into the
  55 directories into which things will be installed.
  56
  57 If you are interested in building Expat to provide document
  58 information in UTF-16 rather than the default UTF-8, following these
  59 instructions:
  60
  61         1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error
  62            strings as char), run:
  63
  64                ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE
  65
  66            For UTF-16 output as wchar_t (incl. version/error strings),
  67            run:
  68
  69                ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fshort-wchar" \
  70                            CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T
  71
  72         2. Edit the MakeFile, changing:
  73
  74                LIBRARY = libexpat.la
  75
  76            to:
  77
  78                LIBRARY = libexpatw.la
  79
  80            (Note the additional "w" in the library name.)
  81
  82         3. Run "make buildlib" (which builds the library only).
  83
  84         4. Run "make installlib" (which installs the library only).
  85
  86 Note for Solaris users:  The "ar" command is usually located in
  87 "/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH.  You will need to
  88 add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch
  89 to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work
  90 properly -- appearantly it does not understand .PHONY directives).  If
  91 you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build:
  92
  93         PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make
  94
  95 When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you
  96 can use the probing macro in conftools/expat.m4 to determine how to
  97 include Expat.  See the comments at the top of that file for more
  98 information.
  99
 100 A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
 101 distribution.
 102
 103 The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/.  There
 104 are links there to connect you to the bug reports page.  If you need
 105 to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also
 106 send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@mail.libexpat.org.
 107
 108 Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
 109 place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org.  Archives of this list and
 110 other Expat-related lists may be found at:
 111
 112         http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman-21/listinfo/