--- layout: default title: Home --- > If you use pugixml, please [star it on GitHub](https://github.com/zeux/pugixml/stargazers)! pugixml is a light-weight C++ XML processing library. It features: * DOM-like interface with rich traversal/modification capabilities * [Extremely fast](/benchmark.html) non-validating XML parser which constructs the DOM tree from an XML file/buffer * XPath 1.0 implementation for complex data-driven tree queries * Full Unicode support with Unicode interface variants and automatic encoding conversions The library is extremely portable and easy to integrate and use. You can download it in an archive (Windows/Unix line endings), get it from [Git/Subversion repository](https://github.com/zeux/pugixml), install it as a package in one of the major Linux/BSD distributions ([Ubuntu](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=pugixml), [Debian](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pugixml), [Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pugixml), [Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-libs/pugixml?arches=prefix), [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pugixml/), [FreeBSD](http://www.freshports.org/textproc/pugixml/) and [more](http://pkgs.org/search/pugixml)), install it as a package in one of the OSX package managers ([Homebrew](http://brewformulas.org/Pugixml), [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=pugixml)), install [a NuGet package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/pugixml/) or use one of the alternative package managers ([Conda](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pugixml)). pugixml is developed and maintained since 2006 and has many users. All code is distributed under the [MIT license](/license.html), making it completely free to use in both open-source and proprietary applications. ### Recent news [(more)](/news.html)