expat-1.95.6

Introduction to expat

Download location (HTTP):       http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-1.95.6.tar.gz
Version used:                   1.95.6
Package size:                   292 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  3.2 MB
Estimated build time:           0.25 SBU

The expat package contains a stream oriented C library for parsing XML.

Download the patch for expat from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches.

Installation of expat

The expat.h declares XML_Status after its first use. This is corrected by the following patch:
patch -Np1 -i ../expat-1.95.6.patch

Install expat by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The expat package contains the libexpat libraries and xmlwf.

Description

xmlwf

xmlwf is a non-validating utility to check whether or not XML documents are well formed.