expat: expat-1.95.6 expat: expat: This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. expat: Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register expat: handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers expat: are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the expat: document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of expat: structures for which you may register handlers. expat: