Using libxml2

libxml2 is a C library that provides XML handling capabilities to your applications. It supports an extensive range of standards and specifications common in the XML community. It’s also a highly ported library between platforms and architectures making it a good choice when your application needs to move.

For a deeper-dive into the libxml2 library, I suggest a read through on their tutorial.

Building applications

The xml2-config program allows your Makefiles to remain relatively noise-free. To build any applications against libxml2, you just need the --cflags and --libs switches to compile and link respectively:

$ gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` prog.c -o prog

Writing programs

Rather than re-produce them all, I’ve just got a link to the set of examples on the libxml2 site.