- Expat, Release 1.95.1
+ Expat, Release 1.95.2
-This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat
-is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with
-the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when
-the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed.
-A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may
-register handlers.
+This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
+Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register
+handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers
+are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the
+document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of
+structures for which you may register handlers.
-Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the
-terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed with this
-package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license.
+Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under
+the terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed
+with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium
+license.
-Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in the
-release above), are development releases and should be considered as
-beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are intended to be
-production grade software.
+Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in
+the release above), are development releases and should be considered
+as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are
+intended to be production grade software.
-To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the top
-level distribution directory:
+To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the
+top level distribution directory:
./configure
-There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you can
-discover by running configure with the --help option.) But the one of most
-interest is the one that sets the installation directory. By default,
-the configure script will set things up to install libexpat into
-/usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If, for example, you'd
-prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and /home/me/mystuff/include,
-you can tell configure about that with:
+There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you
+can discover by running configure with the --help option). But the
+one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory.
+By default, the configure script will set things up to install
+libexpat into /usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If,
+for example, you'd prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and
+/home/me/mystuff/include, you can tell configure about that with:
./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff
-After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and
-"make install" will install things into their proper location. Note that
-you need to have write permission into the directories into which things
-will be installed.
+After running the configure script, the "make" command will build
+things and "make install" will install things into their proper
+location. Note that you need to have write permission into the
+directories into which things will be installed.
Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in
"/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to
PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make
-Alternatively, on Win32 systems with Microsoft's Developer's Studio installed,
-you can simply double-click on lib/expat.dsp from Windows Explorer and build
-and install in the usual way from with DevStudio.
+Alternatively, on Win32 systems with Microsoft's Developer's Studio
+installed, you can simply double-click on lib/expat.dsw from Windows
+Explorer and build and install in the usual way from with DevStudio.
-As a third alternative you may choose to download expat_win32bin which has
-a pre-compiled dll in it.
+Another alternative you may choose to download expat_win32bin which
+includes a pre-compiled DLL.
-A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this
+A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
distribution.
-The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net. There are
-links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need to report
-a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also send a bug
-report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.
+The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net/. There
+are links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need
+to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also
+send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net.
-Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes place
-on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list may be found
-at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss.
+Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
+place on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list
+may be found at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss.