Daniel Veillard has announced release 2.2.0 of libxml, the XML C library that is one of the core components of the GNOME project.

Mentioning XML as one of its "cutting edge technologies", GNOME relies heavily on libxml--both for its desktop and for the GNOME Office project, for which XML is a native format.

Although the link is strong enough to allow Veillard to call libxml "a.k.a. gnome-xml", libxml can be used as a portable standalone C library. It includes a SAX and DOM parser, supporting DTD validation, I18N features, file compression and an HTML parser.

The new release includes portability fixes, a better encoding support, and bug fixes.

Veillard says he is now:

working on HTML and XML links recognition layers, get in touch with me if you want to test those.