Libxml2

libxml2 is a software library for parsing XML documents. It is also the basis for the libxslt library which processes XSLT-1.0 stylesheets.

"libXML" redirects here and is not to be confused with XML Library.

libxml2

Original author(s)	The GNOME Project
Initial release	September 23, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-09-23)
Stable release	2.14.3[1]  / May 13, 2025; 1 day ago (May 13, 2025)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
Written in	C
Operating system	cross-platform[2]
Type	XML parser, XML validator
License	MIT License
Website	xmlsoft.org

Description

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]

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• libxslt (the LibXML2's XSLT module)
• XML validation
• Comparison of HTML parsers
• Expat (library)
• Saxon XSLT
• Xerces