1. xmerl

1 xmerl

1.1 Introduction

Features

The xmerl XML parser is able to parse XML documents according to the XML 1.0 standard. As default it performs well-formed parsing, (syntax checks and checks of well-formed constraints). Optionally one can also use xmerl as a validating parser, (validate according to referenced DTD and validating constraints). By means of for example the xmerl_xs module it is possible to transform the parsed result to other formats, e.g. text, HTML, XML etc.

Overview

This document does not give an introduction to XML. There are a lot of books available that describe XML from different views. At the www.W3.org site you will find the XML 1.0 specification and other related specs. One site were you can