DAdanielovichdk·Jun 18, 2025Submission
Libxml2's Readme Security Caption
4 points · Open discussionGNOME
libxml2
C2021–2025
GNOME / libxml2
libxml2
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
770GitHub stars
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What it is
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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Observed mentions: 2021-01-24 16:47:42 UTC to 2025-06-18 19:05:24 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesStarting off, SVG is an XML encoding, which is a rather hairy thing to deal with. Just to get a feel for LOCs:
https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2
There's also the web's (horrible) tendency to make a diarrhea of special-purpose tags and attributes--many of which could be subsumed by basic turing-completeness. Compare this to postscript, which was a relatively simple stack machine to begin with.
And of course, if we start special-purposing things, we're no longer compliant with the standard, and it would be chaos to call it SVG at that point.
In SVG Based GUI