Libxml and Libxslt: from the XML specs to running code
by Daniel Veillard

Table of contents

• Introduction
• The XML libraries and tools
• Architecture of libxml2
• XML example
• The tree parser Interface
• The SAX interface
• The reader interface
• Validation: XML Schemas Datatypes
• Validation: Relax-NG
• Validation: streaming
• XPath: addressing language
• XPointer: fragment and selection
• XInclude: inclusion mechanism
• XSLT: the transformation language
• Extending XSLT with python
• Catalogs and I/O handling
• Python bindings: the build
• Python bindings: problems and TODOs
• Conclusions
• Questions and Answers