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Libxml 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