README

                      iksemel 1.5

            http://code.google.com/p/iksemel

Copyright (c) 2000-2011 Gurer Ozen <meduketto at gmail.com>


Introduction:
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This is an XML parser library mainly designed for Jabber applications.
It provides SAX, DOM, and special Jabber stream APIs. Library is coded
in ANSI C except the network code (which is POSIX compatible), thus
highly portable. Iksemel is released under GNU Lesser General Public
License. A copy of the license is included in the COPYING file.


Requirements:
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Libtool, Automake and Autoconf packages are required for compiling cvs
versions.

TLS support requires OpenSSL (>0.9.8) or GNUTLS (>2.0.0) library.

Python bindings requires Python (>2.2).


Compiling & Install:
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If you got the source from CVS, type

  ./autogen.sh

for creating configuration script and files.

Then type

  ./configure
  make

now library is compiled. You can test it with

  make check

and install it with

  (become root if necessary)
  make install