RXP Description
From:  ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/richard/rxp-beta8.tar.gz
Date:  980527

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This is a beta-test release of RXP, a non-validating XML parser in C.

RXP is free for individual, research and educational use and for
evaluation.  This release may not be redistributed.  Commercial
licences will be available for future releases.  See the file
COPYRIGHT for copyright and disclaimer.

RXP is based on the W3C recommendation of 10th February 1998;
deviations from the recommendation should probably be considered as
bugs.

It can be compiled in 8- or 16-bit character mode.  In 8-bit mode, the
internal encoding is a superset of ASCII, in which all characters
above 0xa0 are treated as name characters.  Characters are not
translated on input or ouput.  This means that well-formed documents
in ASCII and ISO-8859-N should work.  In 16-bit mode, the internal
encoding is UTF-16 and the supported input encodings are ISO-8859-N
(1 <= N <= 9), UTF-16 and UTF-8.

The system has been developed under unix (Solaris and FreeBSD), but
has also been compiled and run under MS Windows.  It should work with
minor changes on other systems.  To compile under unix, type "make",
or "make CHAR_SIZE=16".

A simple application (called rxp) is provided that parses and writes
XML data, optionally expanding entities, defaulting attributes, and
translating to a different output encoding.  There is a short manual
page for rxp, but no other documentation yet.

Notes on 8- and 16-bit character modes:

The type char8 is typedefed to char.  Unsigned char would have been
better than char, but causes too many compiler warnings in
applications.  The type char16 is typedefed to unsigned short.  The
type Char is typedefed to either char8 or char16 according to the
compilation mode.