diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'rules/host-libxml2.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | rules/host-libxml2.in | 58 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/rules/host-libxml2.in b/rules/host-libxml2.in index 07a3d501e..213142d40 100644 --- a/rules/host-libxml2.in +++ b/rules/host-libxml2.in @@ -8,7 +8,14 @@ menuconfig HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "libxml2 " select HOST_ZLIB if HOST_LIBXML2_ZLIB help - FIXME: This item needs to be documented + Libxml2 is a XML C parser and toolkit. XML itself is a + metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text + language where semantic and structure are added to the + content using extra "markup" information enclosed + between angle brackets. HTML is the most well-known + markup language. Though the library is written in C a + variety of language bindings make it available in other + environments. config HOST_LIBXML2_C14N bool @@ -98,7 +105,8 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_ICONV depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "ICONV support" help - Add ICONV support. + Add ICONV support. The iconv program converts + text from one encoding to another encoding. config HOST_LIBXML2_ISO8859X bool @@ -193,6 +201,9 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_SAX1 prompt "SAX1 API" help Enable the SAX1 API + SAX is the Simple API for XML, originally a + Java-only API. SAX was the first widely adopted + API for XML in Java, and is a 'de facto' standard. config HOST_LIBXML2_SCHEMAS bool @@ -200,7 +211,8 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_SCHEMAS depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "Relax-NG/Schema Support" help - Add Relay-NG and experimental Schemas support + Add Relax-NG and experimental Schemas support. + RELAX NG is a schema language for XML. config HOST_LIBXML2_SCHEMATRON bool @@ -210,6 +222,11 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_SCHEMATRON help Add Schematron support + The Schematron differs in basic concept from + other schema languages in that it not based + on grammars but on finding tree patterns in + the parsed document. + config HOST_LIBXML2_THREADS bool default y @@ -233,13 +250,21 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_DOM help Add the DOM tree manipulation API. + The XML Document Object Model (XML DOM) defines + a standard way for accessing and manipulating + XML documents. + The DOM presents an XML document as a tree-structure + (a node tree), with the elements, attributes, + and text defined as nodes. + config HOST_LIBXML2_DTD bool default y depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "DTD Validation support" help - Add the DTD validation support + Add the DTD (Document Type Definition) + validation support config HOST_LIBXML2_WRITER bool @@ -255,7 +280,11 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_XINCLUDE depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "XInclude" help - XInclude support. + XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging + XML documents (as represented by their information sets) + for use by applications that need such a facility. + The syntax leverages existing XML constructs - elements, + attributes, and URI references. config HOST_LIBXML2_XPATH bool @@ -263,7 +292,9 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_XPATH depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "XPATH support" help - XPATH support + XPath is a language for addressing parts + of an XML document, designed to be used + by both XSLT and XPointer. config HOST_LIBXML2_XPTR bool @@ -271,7 +302,20 @@ config HOST_LIBXML2_XPTR depends on HOST_LIBXML2 prompt "XPTR" help - XPointer support + XML Pointer Language (XPointer) is a language to + be used as the basis for a fragment identifier for + any URI reference that locates a resource whose + Internet media type is one of text/xml, + application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity, + or application/xml-external-parsed-entity. + + XPointer, which is based on the XML Path Language + (XPath), supports addressing into the internal + structures of XML documents. It allows for + examination of a hierarchical document structure + and choice of its internal parts based on various + properties, such as element types, attribute values, + character content, and relative position. config HOST_LIBXML2_MODULES bool |