The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome

Libxml2 is made of multiple components; some of them are optional, and most of the block interfaces are public. The main components are:

• an Input/Output layer
• FTP and HTTP client layers (optional)
• an Internationalization layer managing the encodings support
• a URI module
• the XML parser and its basic SAX interface
• an HTML parser using the same SAX interface (optional)
• a SAX tree module to build an in-memory DOM representation
• a tree module to manipulate the DOM representation
• a validation module using the DOM representation (optional)
• an XPath module for global lookup in a DOM representation (optional)
• a debug module (optional)

Graphically this gives the following:

Daniel Veillard