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<p>Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a
stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for
things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags).
An <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/09/expat/index.html"
>introductory article</a> on using Expat is available on
<a href="http://www.xml.com/">xml.com</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/"
>Expat project page (includes downloads)</a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman-21/listinfo/"
>Mailing lists</a></li>
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<a href="dev/cvs.html"
>CVS repository</a>
(<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/expat/"
>browse online</a>)</li>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=10127"
>Bug reports</a></li>
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<a href="dev/">Notes for Expat maintainers</a></li>
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<p>This project aims to maintain Expat for both current and future
users while improving the API to allow more reliable and robust access
from "scripting" languages such as Python and Perl. We invite the
community to participate on the mailing lists to help shape the future
of Expat.</p>
<h3>News</h3>
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<dt><em>12 July 2002</em><br />
<strong>Expat 1.95.4 released.</strong><br />
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<li> Added support for VMS, contributed by Craig Berry. See
vms/README.vms in the distrubution for more information. </li>
<li> Added Mac OS (classic) support, with a makefile for MPW,
contributed by Thomas Wegner and Daryle Walker. </li>
<li> Added Borland C++ Builder 5 / BCC 5.5 support, contributed
by Patrick McConnell (SF patch #538032). </li>
<li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 441449, 563184,
564342, 566334, 566901, 569461, 570263, 575168, 579196. </li>
<li> Made skippedEntityHandler conform to SAX2 (see source
comment). </li>
<li> Re-implemented WFC: Entity Declared from XML 1.0 spec and
added a new error "entity declared in parameter entity":
see SF bug report 569461 and SF patch 578161. </li>
<li> Re-implemented section 5.1 from XML 1.0 spec:
see SF bug report 570263 and SF patch 578161. </li>
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Expat 1.95.3 is being withdrawn due to <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=566334&amp;group_id=10127&amp;atid=110127"
>bug #566334</a>. If you are currently using Expat 1.95.3, please
update to 1.95.4.
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<dt><em>3 June 2002</em><br />
<strong>Expat 1.95.3 released.</strong><br />
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<dd>
<ul>
<li> Changed the name of the Windows DLLs from expat.dll to
libexpat.dll; this fixes SF bug #432456. This is a problem
only known to affect the Perl XML::Parser::Expat extension,
but is very important for that extension.</li>
<li> Added a project to the MSVC workspace to create a wchar_t
version of the library; the DLLs are named libexpatw.dll.
(Note the addition of the "w" character in the file name.)
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<li> Added the XML_ParserReset() API function. This allows a
parser to be re-used, reducing the number of memory
allocations needed to set up a parser. This can be a
substantial benefit when parsing a large number of small
documents. </li>
<li> Fixed XML_SetReturnNSTriplet() to work for element names.
This is now a usable feature. </li>
<li> Made the XML_UNICODE builds usable (thanks, Karl!). </li>
<li> Allow xmlwf to read from standard input. </li>
<li> Install a man page for xmlwf on Unix systems. </li>
<li> Fixed many bugs; see SF bug reports 231864, 461380, 464837,
466885, 469226, 477667, 484419, 487840, 494749, 496505,
547350. Other bugs which we can't test as easily may also
have been fixed, especially in the area of build support. </li>
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<h3>References</h3>
<p>If you know of any additional articles or resources which should be
linked to from this page, please send email to <a
href="mailto:fdrake@acm.org">Fred Drake (fdrake&#64;acm.org)</a>.
We're especially interested in links to tutorial information and open
source interfaces to Expat from languages other than C.</p>
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<a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html"
>James Clark's original Expat page</a>, for Expat 1.2 and
earlier</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/09/expat/index.html"
>Introductory article</a> on using Expat on
<a href="http://www.xml.com/">xml.com</a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-xml.parsers.expat.html"
>Documentation for the Python interface to Expat</a>, part of the
standard documentation for Python</li>
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<em><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/soap/expatimpl.asp"
title="C++ Wrappers for the Expat XML Parser">C++ Wrappers
for the Expat XML Parser</a></em>, an article by Tim Smith
providing object-oriented wrappers for Expat. The wrappers use
some MFC-biased naming, but look interesting.</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/SAX" title="SAX in C++"
>SAX in C++</a> -- a SAX interface for C++ programmers, with
implementations based on several parsers, including Expat.</li>
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<a href="http://www.oofile.com.au/files/xml/"
>C++ interface to Expat</a> (old; not updated since Expat 1.2)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://easysoap.sourceforge.net/">EasySoap</a> is a C++
SOAP implementation which uses Expat.</li>
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The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gobo-eiffel/">GOBO
project</a> is working on an Eiffel binding for Expat. Development
appears to have slowed, and there isn't any status information about
the Expat bindings on the website. (I had to dig around the CVS to
find any hint of the XML support.)</li>
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The <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/"
>TclXML project</a> includes a <a href="http://tcl.activestate.com/"
>Tcl</a> binding for Expat</li>
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<a href="http://sdf.lonestar.org/~loewerj/tdom.cgi"
>tDOM</a> is an alternate package providing XML support for <a
href="http://tcl.activestate.com/" >Tcl</a>, based in part on
Expat</li>
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<a href="http://expatobjc.sourceforge.net/"
>Objective-C interface to Expat</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser"
>Ruby interface to Expat</a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/justin20000428.php3"
>Article on using Expat from PHP</a> on
<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/">&lt;?PHPBuilder?&gt;</a>
<br />(broken into lots of tiny pieces)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://xml.defined.net/sax/expat"
>SAX2 Wrapper for using Expat in Delphi,</a>
based on
<a href="http://xml.defined.net/sax"
>"SAX for Pascal"</a>
interface specs</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.mitchenall.com/expat4d">Expat4D</a> is a plug-in
for the <a href="http://www.4duk.com/">4th Dimension</a> application
framework.</li>
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