libxml2 is a software library for parsing XML documents. It is also the basis for the libxslt library which processes XSLT-1.0 stylesheets.
Original author(s) | The GNOME Project |
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Initial release | September 23, 1999 |
Stable release | 2.13.5[1]
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Written in | C |
Operating system | cross-platform[2] |
Type | XML parser, XML validator |
License | MIT License |
Website | xmlsoft |
Written in the C programming language, libxml2 provides bindings to C++, Ch,[3] XSH, C#, Python, Swift, Kylix/Delphi and other Pascals, Ruby, Perl, Common Lisp,[4] and PHP.[5] It was originally developed for the GNOME project, but can be used outside it. libxml2's code is highly portable[6] since it only depends on standard ANSI C libraries[7] and it is available under the MIT license.[8]
It includes the command-line utility xmllint and an HTML parser.[9]