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The Expat XML Parse Instruction
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Expat is an XML parser library written in C which be used for parse XML documents.
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It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document.
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It can parse some larger files.
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- Expat XML Parser support many different processor, but for the most part function you only need the following functions:
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**XML_ParserCreate**: Create a new parser object
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**XML_SetElementHandler**: Set handlers for start and end tags
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**XML_SetCharacterDataHandler**: Set handler for text
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**XML_Parse**: Pass a buffer full of document to the parser
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More information about Expat library can be found on http://expat.sourceforge.net
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An introductory article on using Expat is available on http://xml.com
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