| This document describes libxml, the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the
Gnome project. XML is a standard for building tag-based
structured documents/data. Here are some key points about libxml: 
  Libxml2 exports Push (progressive) and Pull (blocking) type parser
    interfaces for both XML and HTML.Libxml2 can do DTD validation at parse time, using a parsed document
    instance, or with an arbitrary DTD.Libxml2 includes complete XPath, XPointer and XInclude implementations.It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and
    sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. Works on
    Linux/Unix/Windows, ported to a number of other platforms.Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing applications to fetch
    remote resources.The design is modular, most of the extensions can be compiled out.The internal document representation is as close as possible to the DOM interfaces.Libxml2 also has a SAX like interface;
    the interface is designed to be compatible with Expat.This library is released under the MIT
    License. See the Copyright file in the distribution for the precise
    wording. Warning: unless you are forced to because your application links with a
Gnome-1.X library requiring it,  Do Not Use libxml1, use
libxml2 Daniel Veillard |