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+This is hightly incomplete version, not meant for general use!
+
+You will need libxml version 2.2.1 or higher, available
+from http://xmlsoft.org. There is a link to precompiled win32 DLL as well.
+You can find everything you need to use libxml together with
+wxWindows under win32 at http://www.volny.cz/v.slavik/libxml-win32.zip
+
+libxml is distributed under either GNU LGPL or W3C IPR 
+(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720.html),
+you can choose from them.
+