“Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger.”

— Mark Pilgrim

Dive Into Mark http://web.archive.org/web/20110902041836/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/18/libxml2, Wednesday, February 18, 2004.

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American computer programmer 1972

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