| Initial release | September 23, 1999 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.7.8 (November 4, 2010) [±] |
| Preview release | SVN (Current) [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, CygWin, Mac OS, RISC OS, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS... |
| Type | XML parser |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | xmlsoft.org |
libxml2 is a software library for parsing XML documents. It is also the basis for the libxslt library which processes XSLT-1.0 stylesheets.
libxml2 is written in the C programming language, and provides bindings to, C++, XSH, C#, Python, Kylix/Delphi and other Pascals, Ruby, and PHP5. It can be accessed from Perl using the XML::LibXML Perl module. It was originally developed for the GNOME project, but can be used outside it. The libXML code is highly portable, since it depends on standard ANSI C libraries only, and it is released under the MIT license.
It includes the command line utility xmllint.