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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>LuaExpat: XML Expat parsing for the Lua programming language</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../doc.css" type="text/css"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="product"> <div id="product_logo"> <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org"><img alt="LuaExpat logo" src="luaexpat.png"/></a> </div> <div id="product_name"><big><strong>LuaExpat</strong></big></div> <div id="product_description">XML Expat parsing for the Lua programming language</div> </div> <!-- id="product" --> <div id="main"> <div id="navigation"> <h1>LuaExpat</h1> <ul> <li><strong>Home</strong> <ul> <li><a href="index.html#overview">Overview</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#status">Status</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#references">References</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li> <li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="manual.html">Manual</a> <ul> <li><a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="manual.html#building">Building</a></li> <li><a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a></li> <li><a href="manual.html#parser">Parser Objects</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li> <li><a href="lom.html">Lua Object Model</a></li> <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luaexpat/">Project</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13">Bug Tracker</a></li> <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=13">CVS</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="license.html">License</a></li> </ul> </div> <!-- id="navigation" --> <div id="content"> <h2><a name="overview"></a>Overview</h2> <p>LuaExpat is a <a href="http://www.saxproject.org/">SAX</a> XML parser based on the <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/">Expat</a> library.</p> <p>LuaExpat is free software and uses the same <a href="license.html">license</a> as Lua 5.1.</p> <h2><a name="status"></a>Status</h2> <p>Current version is 1.3.0. It was developed for both Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2, and has been tested on Linux, Windows (XP) and MacOS X with Expat 2.1.0.</p> <h2><a name="download"></a>Download</h2> <p>The latest LuaExpat release is 1.3.0.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/luaexpat-1.3.0.tar.gz">luaexpat-1.3.0.tar.gz</a> <a href="https://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/luaexpat-1.3.0.tar.gz.asc">(signature)</a></li> <li><a href="https://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/luaexpat-1.2.0.tar.gz">luaexpat-1.2.0.tar.gz</a> <a href="https://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/luaexpat-1.2.0.tar.gz.asc">(signature)</a></li> </ul> <p>Older LuaExpat releases can be downloaded from <a href="http://files.luaforge.net/releases/luaexpat/LuaExpat">LuaForge</a> page.</p> <p>Binaries for Windows are bundled with the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/">Lua for Windows</a> project.</p> <p>LuaExpat is also available from the main <a href="http://luarocks.org/">LuaRocks</a> repository, as 'luaexpat'.</p> <h2><a name="history"></a>History</h2> <dl class="history"> <dt><strong>Version 1.3.0</strong> [02/Apr/2014]</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>Lua 5.2 support (thanks Tomás Guisasola Gorham)</li> <li>support for the XmlDecl handler</li> <li>add parser:getcurrentbytecount() (XML_GetCurrentByteCount)</li> <li>ability to disable CharacterData merging</li> <li>Makefile improvements (thanks Vadim Misbakh-Soloviov)</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><strong>Version 1.2.0</strong> [02/Jun/2011]</dt> <dd> <em>New maintainer: Matthew Wild</em> <ul> <li>support for the StartDoctypeDecl handler</li> <li>add parser:stop() to abort parsing inside a callback</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><strong>Version 1.1.0</strong> [05/Jun/2007]</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>adapted to work on both Lua 5.0 and Lua 5.1</li> <li>updated to use Expat 2.0.0</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luaexpat/1.0">Version 1.0.2</a></strong> [23/Mar/2006]</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>minor bugfix, <code>lom</code> correct module name is <code>lxp.lom</code></li> </ul> </dd> <dt><strong>Version 1.0.1</strong> [06/Jun/2005]</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>minor changes for compatibility with Expat version 1.95.8</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><strong>Version 1.0</strong> [2/Dec/2004]</dt> <dd /> <dt><strong>Version 1.0 Beta</strong> [4/Apr/2004]</dt> <dd /> <dt><strong>Version 1.0 Alpha</strong> [10/Dec/2003]</dt> <dd /> </dl> <h2><a name="references"></a>References</h2> <p>LuaExpat uses the <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/">Expat</a> library. For details on the C API please refer to the article <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/09/expat/index.html?page=1">"Using Expat"</a>.</p> <p>LuaExpat implements the <a href="http://www.saxproject.org/">SAX</a> API.</p> <h2><a name="credits"></a>Credits</h2> <p>Version 1.0 was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, André Carregal and Tomás Guisasola as part of the Kepler Project which holds its copyright. The implementation was coded by Roberto Ierusalimschy, based on a previous design by <a href="http://www.place.org/~nop/lua">Jay Carlson</a>.</p> <p>LuaExpat development was sponsored by <a href="http://www.fabricadigital.com.br">Fábrica Digital</a> and FINEP.</p> <h2><a name="contact"></a>Contact</h2> <p>For more information please <a href="mailto:info-NO-SPAM-THANKS@keplerproject.org">contact us</a>. 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