Latest News

• 2024-11-07 — Expat 2.6.4 has been released, includes security fixes
• 2024-09-04 — Expat 2.6.3 has been released, includes security fixes
• 2024-03-13 — Expat 2.6.2 has been released, includes security fixes
• 2024-02-29 — Expat 2.6.1 has been released
• 2024-02-06 — Expat 2.6.0 has been released, includes security fixes
• 2022-10-25 — Expat 2.5.0 has been released, includes security fixes
• 2022-09-20 — Expat 2.4.9 has been released, includes security fixes
• Past news entries

What is Expat?

Welcome to Expat, a stream-oriented XML parser library written in C.
Expat excels with files too large to fit RAM, and where performance and flexibility are crucial.

There are a number of applications, libraries and hardware using Expat, as well as bindings and 3rd-party wrappers. Expat is packaged everywhere.

Please continue reading with:

• Getting Started
• XML Security
• Common Pitfalls

If you have found a bug, please report it so it gets fixed. Thank you!

The Expat development team