libxml2-2.6.17

Introduction to libxml2

The libxml2 package contains XML libraries. These are useful for parsing XML files.

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Install libxml2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-history &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

--with-history: Enables readline support.

xml2-config: determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use libxml2.
xmlcatalog: is used to monitor and manipulate XML and SGML catalogs.
xmllint: parses XML files and outputs reports (based upon options) to detect errors in XML coding.
libxml2.[so,a]: libraries provide the functions for programs to parse files that use the XML format.