| Original author(s) | The GNOME Project |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Various people |
| Initial release | September 23, 1999 |
| Stable release | 2.9.4 (May 23, 2016) |
| Preview release | Git (Current) |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, CygWin, macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, RISC OS, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS |
| Type | XML parser |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | xmlsoft |
libxml2 is a software library for parsing XML documents. It is also the basis for the libxslt library which processes XSLT-1.0 stylesheets.
Written in the C programming language, libxml2 provides bindings to C++, Ch,XSH, C#, Python, Kylix/Delphi and other Pascals, Ruby, Common Lisp, and PHP. It can be accessed from the Perl programming language using the XML::LibXML 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. This library was written by Daniel Veillard and enjoys active feedback from its users.
It includes the command-line utility xmllint and an HTML parser.