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+Well, for accurate NEWS on libxml2 look at the following resources:
+   - the ChangeLog, very detailed, quickly boring unless you're really
+     looking for something specific
+   - the on-line News at http://xmlsoft.org/news.html which are more
+     general and intended to a less techmical audience
+
+Daniel Veillard
+
+daniel@veillard.com