ACDK XML Readme

ACDK XML (acdk_xml)acdk_xml contains some classes regarding XML, including a XML-serialisation.

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     Dependencies
     Namespaces
     Authors
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General

Version

Distribution version: 4.14.
Package version: 4.14.0.

Short Description

  acdk_xml contains some classes regarding XML, including a XML-serialisation.

Dependencies

       ACDK Core
 ACDK Text
 ACDK Net

Namespaces

       org::w3c::dom
 org::w3c::dom::traversal
 org::w3c::dom::xpath
 org::xml::sax
 org::xml::sax::helpers
 acdk::xml
 acdk::xml::sax
 acdk::xml::dom
 acdk::xml::libxmldom
 acdk::xml::parsers

Authors

      Roger Rene Kommer (kommer@artefaktur.com).

License

      ACDK Free Edition License.
See also:  COPYING of expat.
See also:  COPYING of libxml2

acdk_xml contains a class framework to parse XML and HTML files with a SAX or DOM Parser. It also validation, namespaces and XPath expressions. The module org_xml contains the interface defintions following Java mapping of the

SAX interface (defined in

org::xml::sax and the Java mapping of the DOM (Document Object Model) by the

W3C (defined in

org::w3c::dom). To make handling with DOM a little bit more comfortable the acdk enrich the original DOM interface with methods inspired by the

dom4j Java library. Currently two implementation for the SAX and DOM parsers are available: The first is based on the

expat library (which is

included in acdk_xml). It is a lean SAX implementation and has also basic DOM support. It can be found in the namespace

acdk::xml::sax and

acdk::xml::dom. The better choice is the

libxml2 implementation, which supports namespaces, DOM Reading and Writing, parsing XML and HTML. Access and manipulation to/of a DOM Tree is also possible via XPath expressions. The corresponding classes can be found in the namespace

acdk::xml::libxmldom. A copy of the underlying libxml2 C library is in

included. Sample code can be found in

ACDK XML and the unit tests

acdk_xml_dom_LibXML_Test.cpp. acdk_xml also contains some basic object serialization to/from XML (

XMLObject[Reader|Writer] and

acdk::xml::XMLObjectWriter);

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4.14.0
- fixed buggy LibXMLNode::cloneNode()
- Support for parsing HTML to DOM (via LibXMLDocumentBuilder)
- Node::write support for writing XML or HTML
- upgrade of libxml2 to version 2.6.17.

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4.13.0
- Extended the org::w3c::dom classes for more convinience
  following the dom4j pattern.
- Added alternative XML Parser and DOM-model using
  libxml2 implementation, which supports namespaces, 
  DOM support, XPath and validation.
- Implemented DOM (acdk::xml::dom).

Please refer also to  ChangeLog.

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4.10.0
- Fixed more unicode bugs.

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4.02.1
- Fixed Unicode compatibilty bugs in interfaces and
  implementation.

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4.02.0
- Configuration and documentation fixes.

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4.01.1
- Ajustments to modified metainfo
- minor documentation changes.

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4.00.1
- Ajustments to Unicode and revised metainfo.

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2.00.1
- Ajustments to ACDK 2.
- The acdk/xml/XMLObjectReader/Writer is ajusted to
  the acdk/io/AbstractObjectReader/Writer in acdk_core

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1.01.0

- Enhanced Metainfo compiler for CORBA functionality.
- Improved Configurations.
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1.00.2.
- Initial revision.