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                         Expat, Release 2.0.0

 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
 Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser.  This means that you register
 handlers with the parser before starting the parse.  These handlers
 are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the
 document being parsed.  A start tag is an example of the kind of
 structures for which you may register handlers.

 Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes
 both precompiled libraries and executables, and source code for
 developers.

 Expat is free software.  You may copy, distribute, and modify it under
 the terms of the License contained in the file COPYING distributed
 with this package.  This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium
 license.

 Versions of Expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in
 the release above), are development releases and should be considered
 as beta software.  Releases with even minor version numbers are
 intended to be production grade software.

 If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
 you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
 GNU autoconf and libtool tools.  To do this, you need to have
 autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer.  Run the script like
 this:

         ./buildconf.sh

 Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
 from a source distribution.

 To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the
 configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory:

         ./configure

 There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you
 can discover by running configure with the --help option).  But the
 one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory.
 By default, the configure script will set things up to install
 libexpat into /usr/local/lib, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and
 xmlwf into /usr/local/bin.  If, for example, you'd prefer to install
 into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and
 /home/me/mystuff/bin, you can tell configure about that with:

         ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff

 Another interesting option is to enable 64-bit integer support for
 line and column numbers and the over-all byte index:

         ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_LARGE_SIZE

 After running the configure script, the "make" command will build
 things and "make install" will install things into their proper
 location.  Have a look at the "Makefile" to learn about additional
 "make" options.  Note that you need to have write permission into
 the directories into which things will be installed.

 If you are interested in building Expat to provide document
 information in UTF-16 rather than the default UTF-8, follow these
 instructions:

         1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error
            strings as char), run:

                ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE

            For UTF-16 output as wchar_t (incl. version/error strings),
            run:

                ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fshort-wchar" \
                            CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T

         2. Edit the MakeFile, changing:

                LIBRARY = libexpat.la

            to:

                LIBRARY = libexpatw.la

            (Note the additional "w" in the library name.)

         3. Run "make buildlib" (which builds the library only).

         4. Run "make installlib" (which installs the library only).

 Note for Solaris users:  The "ar" command is usually located in
 "/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH.  You will need to
 add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch
 to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work
 properly -- appearantly it does not understand .PHONY directives).  If
 you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build:

         PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make

 When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you
 can use the probing macro in conftools/expat.m4 to determine how to
 include Expat.  See the comments at the top of that file for more
 information.

 A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
 distribution.

 The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/.  There
 are links there to connect you to the bug reports page.  If you need
 to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also
 send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@mail.libexpat.org.

 Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
 place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org.  Archives of this list and
 other Expat-related lists may be found at:

         http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/

	Expat, Release 2.0.0

	This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
	Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register
	handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers
	are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the
	document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of
	structures for which you may register handlers.

	Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes
	both precompiled libraries and executables, and source code for
	developers.

	Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under
	the terms of the License contained in the file COPYING distributed
	with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium
	license.

	Versions of Expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in
	the release above), are development releases and should be considered
	as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are
	intended to be production grade software.

	If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
	you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
	GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have
	autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer. Run the script like
	this:

	./buildconf.sh

	Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
	from a source distribution.

	To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the
	configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory:

	./configure

	There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you
	can discover by running configure with the --help option). But the
	one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory.
	By default, the configure script will set things up to install
	libexpat into /usr/local/lib, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and
	xmlwf into /usr/local/bin. If, for example, you'd prefer to install
	into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and
	/home/me/mystuff/bin, you can tell configure about that with:

	./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff

	Another interesting option is to enable 64-bit integer support for
	line and column numbers and the over-all byte index:

	./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_LARGE_SIZE

	After running the configure script, the "make" command will build
	things and "make install" will install things into their proper
	location. Have a look at the "Makefile" to learn about additional
	"make" options. Note that you need to have write permission into
	the directories into which things will be installed.

	If you are interested in building Expat to provide document
	information in UTF-16 rather than the default UTF-8, follow these
	instructions:

	1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error
	strings as char), run:

	./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE

	For UTF-16 output as wchar_t (incl. version/error strings),
	run:

	./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fshort-wchar" \
	CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T

	2. Edit the MakeFile, changing:

	LIBRARY = libexpat.la

	to:

	LIBRARY = libexpatw.la

	(Note the additional "w" in the library name.)

	3. Run "make buildlib" (which builds the library only).

	4. Run "make installlib" (which installs the library only).

	Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in
	"/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to
	add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch
	to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work
	properly -- appearantly it does not understand .PHONY directives). If
	you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build:

	PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make

	When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you
	can use the probing macro in conftools/expat.m4 to determine how to
	include Expat. See the comments at the top of that file for more
	information.

	A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this
	distribution.

	The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/. There
	are links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need
	to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also
	send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@mail.libexpat.org.

	Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes
	place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org. Archives of this list and
	other Expat-related lists may be found at:

	http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/