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@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2
or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="mailto:ari@lusis.org">Ari Johnson</a>
provides a C++ wrapper for libxml:<br>
<a href="mailto:ari@lusis.org">Ari Johnson</a> provides a C++ wrapper
for libxml:<br>
Website: <a href="http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/">http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/</a><br>
Download: <a href="http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/libxml++.tar.gz">http://lusis.org/~ari/xml++/libxml++.tar.gz</a>
</li>
@ -99,46 +99,41 @@ or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p>
based on the gdome2 </a>bindings maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
<li>
<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt
Sergeant</a>
developped <a href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a perl
wrapper for libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML application server</a>
Sergeant</a> developped <a href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a perl wrapper for
libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML
application server</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a>
provides and earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>
<a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides and
earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>
</li>
<li>Petr Kozelka provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue
libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers</li>
<li>Wai-Sun &quot;Squidster&quot; Chia provides <a href="http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/redist/">bindings for Ruby</a> and
libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the <a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module
maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
<li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains
<a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for
<li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for
Tcl</a>
</li>
<li>There is support for libxml2 in the DOM module of PHP.
</li>
<li>There is support for libxml2 in the DOM module of PHP.</li>
</ul>
<p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are garanteed to
be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python
interface have not yet reached the maturity of the C API.</p>
<p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:
</p>
<p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p>
<ul>
<li> If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the
<a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python RPM</a> (and if needed the
<a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python RPM</a>).
</li>
<li> Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/python/">libxml2-python
module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of libxml2
and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2 and libxslt
installed and run &quot;python setup.py build install&quot; in the module tree.
</li>
<li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python
RPM</a> (and if needed the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python
RPM</a>).</li>
<li>Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/python/">libxml2-python
module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of
libxml2 and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2
and libxslt installed and run &quot;python setup.py build install&quot; in the
module tree.</li>
</ul>
<p>The distribution
includes a set of examples and regression tests for the python bindings in
the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some excepts from those
tests:</p>
<p>The distribution includes a set of examples and regression tests for the
python bindings in the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some
excepts from those tests:</p>
<h3>tst.py:</h3>
<p>This is a basic test of the file interface and DOM navigation:</p>
<pre>import libxml2
@ -162,22 +157,19 @@ prefix is removed and the casing convention are kept). All node seen at the
binding level share the same subset of accesors:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>name</code>
: returns the node name</li>
<code>name</code> : returns the node name</li>
<li>
<code>type</code>
: returns a string indicating the node typ<code>e</code>
<code>type</code> : returns a string indicating the node
typ<code>e</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>content</code>
: returns the content of the node, it is based on xmlNodeGetContent() and
hence is recursive.</li>
<code>content</code> : returns the content of the node, it is based on
xmlNodeGetContent() and hence is recursive.</li>
<li>
<code>parent</code>
, <code>children</code>, <code>last</code>, <code>next</code>,
<code>prev</code>, <code>doc</code>, <code>properties</code>: pointing to
the associated element in the tree, those may return None in case no such
link exists.</li>
<code>parent</code> , <code>children</code>, <code>last</code>,
<code>next</code>, <code>prev</code>, <code>doc</code>,
<code>properties</code>: pointing to the associated element in the tree,
those may return None in case no such link exists.</li>
</ul>
<p>Also note the need to explicitely deallocate documents with freeDoc() .
Reference counting for libxml2 trees would need quite a lot of work to
@ -352,8 +344,7 @@ evaluation point.</p>
<h3>Memory debugging:</h3>
<p>last but not least, all tests starts with the following prologue:</p>
<pre>#memory debug specific
libxml2.debugMemory(1)
</pre>
libxml2.debugMemory(1)</pre>
<p>and ends with the following epilogue:</p>
<pre>#memory debug specific
libxml2.cleanupParser()