| Download location (HTTP): http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-1.95.6.tar.gz Version used: 1.95.6 Package size: 292 KB Estimated Disk space required: 3.2 MB Estimated build time: 0.25 SBU | 
The expat package contains a stream oriented C library for parsing XML.
Download the patch for expat from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches.
The expat.h declares XML_Status after its first use. This is corrected by the following patch:
| patch -Np1 -i ../expat-1.95.6.patch | 
Install expat by running the following commands:
| ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install | 
The expat package contains the libexpat libraries and xmlwf.
xmlwf is a non-validating utility to check whether or not XML documents are well formed.