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Software library for parsing XML documents.

libxml2 is written in the programming language, and provides bindings to , , , , / and other Pascals, , , and .

The library was originally developed as part of the GNOME project and features

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Nokogiri fails outputting XML with UTF-16 declaration (understanding and working around)

Summary Attempting to read and serialize XML documents that have a UTF-16 encoding and declaration causes Nokogiri to produce garbage after a certain point. Is this a bug, or is there a reasonable explanation for this? What's the best way to avoid…
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How do I patch libxml2 so it will compile with ICU support when using a prefix?

I'm trying to fix a bug in libxml2. I cannot get it to compile with --with-icu when using --prefix=/Server/software. I have submitted a bug report here, but I need to get it to compile for resolving a conflict when compiling PHP with intl support. I…
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Need help installing lxml on os x 10.7

I have been struggling to be able to do from lxml import etree (import lxml works fine by the way) The error is: ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/lxml/etree.so, 2): Symbol…
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With libxml, how to get the character position of a given element or attribute in the source xml file?

With libxml2, we can use xmlGetLineNo to get the line number in which a node appears in the source XML file. But how to get character positions of a given element and a given attribute? I need both the start and end positions in the source xml file…
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How do I install ruby gem libxml without 'extconf failure: need libxml2'

I'm currently trying to install a ruby gem which fails because extconf says it needs libxml, so when I follow these instructions to install libxml (which includes these instructions for the ruby dev kit installation) I get the following output: $…
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XML::LibXML - detect if two Elements are the same?

I'm working with XML::LibXML in Perl. Say I have two $element references gotten by different (opaque) XPath queries. (How) can I determine, if the two $element (Node) refs are the same element in the document tree? Comparing $el1 == $el2doesn't…
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Libxml Cleaner adds unwanted

tag to HTML fragments

I'm trying to sanitize user input to prevent XSS injection using libxml's HTML cleaner. When I input a string like this: Normal text Bold text I get this instead:

Normal text Bold text

I want to get rid of the

tag that…

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XSLT 1.0 (xsltproc) - Unable to Parse Huge XML

I am trying to parse an input xml file that is 13,00,000 lines long with a size of 56 MB, using xsltproc. I get the below error: input.xml:245393: parser error : internal error: Huge input lookup "description" : "List of values for…
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"Invalid ELF header" using libxmljs on AWS Lambda

I have a super basic AWS Lambda function using serverless, express, and libxmljs (which binds JavaScript to libxml): Code serverless.xml: service: xmltest provider: name: aws runtime: nodejs10.x stage: dev region: us-east-1 functions: …
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XML_PARSE_HUGE on function simplexml_load_string()

The constant XML_PARSE_HUGE can be passed as the third argument to simplexml_load_string(). According to to php.net this flag: relaxes any hardcoded limit from the parser. What is the "default hardcoded limit from the parser"? I think relaxes is a…
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cannot Install libxml2 in virtualenv

I have got an issue with libxml2 python module. I'm trying to install it on a python3 virtualenv using the following command: pip install libxml2-python3 but it shows the following error: Collecting libxml2-python3 Using…
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Installing xml2 in R in Fedora 27

I'm having trouble installing xml2 in RStudio, running Fedora 27. On running install.packages('xml2'), I get the following error: installing to /home/ryi/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.4/xml2/libs ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy…
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A swiftier way to convert String to UnsafePointer in Swift 3 (libxml2)

I'm working on a Swift 3 wrapper for the libxml2 C-library. There are two convenience methods to convert String to UnsafePointer and vice versa. In libxml2 xmlChar is declared as unsigned char. UnsafePointer to String is…
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libxml2 fails to handle CDATA in HTML correctly

I'm using libxml2.2.7.3 to parse html pages and I'm having difficulties getting it work correctly with CDATA in HTML. Here's the code: xmlDocPtr doc = htmlReadMemory(data, length, "", NULL, 0); xmlBufferPtr buffer =…
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Requesting complete, compilable libxml2 sax example

I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to use the sax parser for libxml2. Can someone post an example that parses this XML ( yes, without the header and footer tags, if that can be parsed by the libxml2 sax parser):
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