https://github.com/mikaello/ocaml-libxml2

ocaml-libxml2 is a library for calling libxml2 functions from OCaml
https://github.com/mikaello/ocaml-libxml2

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ocaml-libxml2 is a library for calling libxml2 functions from OCaml

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mikaello/ocaml-libxml2
• Owner: mikaello
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-03-04T05:21:52.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-04T06:03:01.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T16:22:07.742Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: bindings, libxml, libxml2, ocaml
• Language: Shell
• Size: 104 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG
  • License: LICENSE

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# OCaml Bindings to libxml2.

NB: This is a mirror of the project of _kyas_ at the University of Oslo:

https://folk.uio.no/kyas/creoltools/index.html

This packages aims at providing bindings to [libxml](http://xmlsoft.org/)

version 2.6 and later. One aim of these bindings is to be as source-code

compatible with F# as possible.

To compile and link against the bindings, you cam use, e.g.,

```shell

ocamlfind ocamlc -package libxml2 MyProgram.ml

```

## Build Requirements

In order to compile this package, you need a ocaml compiler, e.g., from

http://caml.inria.fr. Version 3.06 and later are known to work. Many Linux

distributions already provide ocaml, a.o. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian.

You need findlib for ocaml, available from http://www.ocaml-programming.de.

You need libxml2, version 2.6.16 or later, including its development files.

Almost all Linux distributions include this library, but you can obtain it from

http://xmlsoft.org.

You need libxslt, version 1.1.11 or later, including its development files.

Almost all Linux distributions include this library, but you can obtain it from

http://xmlsoft.org.

## Build Instructions

See the file [INSTALL](./INSTALL.md) for more detailed instructions. Usually,

```shell

./configure make all make install

```

will install the bindings. It will create a package libxml2.

## Known Issues

Ubuntu and Debian do not ship libxslt.m4 with its libxslt-dev package.

Therefore, rebuilding from the repository will fail with a complaint about the

macro `AM_PATH_XSLT` being undefined. The correct remedy would be to make Ubuntu

correct its package. As a workaround, however, you can try to download the

libxslt source code, extract it, and copy the missing file to

`/usr/share/aclocal`.

The ABI of different versions of OCaml are not compatible. If you upgrade your

OCaml distribution, remember to upgrade or recompile and reinstall this library.

Similarily, upgrades of Linux distributions can overwrite important

configuration information of ocamlfind, which may make a reinstall necessary.