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Version: 2.9.10
Release: 30 October 2019
Sources from: http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
Depends on: 

--Michael Felt (talk) 10:01, 18 February 2021 (CET) Ignored for too long: here is the most recent version

--Michael Felt (talk) 11:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Repackaged as version 2.9.4.1 with both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
Any executables are 64-bit.
Also see libxslt

--Michael Felt (talk) 11:09, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Starting with libxml2-2.9.4 I am changing the package name to include xmsoft to
denote it's source.

I believe libxml2 has it's origin in GNOME. However, I consider TOOLS section more appropriate as libxml2 is so widely used.

Starting with libxml2-2.9.0 there is a change to the structures that may break older
program's build/compilation. Noticeably, php-5.2.17 must be compiled against libxml2.7.X

In libxml2-2.9.0 the xmlBuffer structure has been redefined - in ./include/libxml/tree.h there is now:

/**
 * xmlBuffer:
 *
 * A buffer structure, this old construct is limited to 2GB and
 * is being deprecated, use API with xmlBuf instead
 */
typedef struct _xmlBuffer xmlBuffer;
typedef xmlBuffer *xmlBufferPtr;
struct _xmlBuffer {
    xmlChar *content;           /* The buffer content UTF8 */
    unsigned int use;           /* The buffer size used */
    unsigned int size;          /* The buffer size */
    xmlBufferAllocationScheme alloc; /* The realloc method */
    xmlChar *contentIO;         /* in IO mode we may have a different base */
};

/**
 * xmlBuf:
 *
 * A buffer structure, new one, the actual structure internals are not public
 */

typedef struct _xmlBuf xmlBuf;

While packaging an old version of php-5.2 I syntax errors prevented compiling several parts of that php.

[edit] Result || Solution

I reinstalled an older version of libxml2 (version 2.7.7) and the compilation went forward as expected. So, the warning is that you keep an older version (pre 2.9.0) for compatibility issues - as least for packaging or compiling older versions of software.

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