Cactus Code Thorn libxml2 Author(s) : Erik Schnetter Maintainer(s): Cactus team Licence : ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Purpose Distribute the libxml2 library; see From the web site: The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome libxml "Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." Mark Pilgrim Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C a variety of language bindings make it available in other environments. Libxml2 is known to be very portable, the library should build and work without serious troubles on a variety of systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, CygWin, MacOS, MacOS X, RISC Os, OS/2, VMS, QNX, MVS, ...)