iksemel is an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) parser library designed for Jabber applications.

• Highly portable, builds on all POSIX environments and Windows (via mingw).
• Suitable for embedded systems. Code is small and highly modular, you can trim unneeded parts. Memory usage is low, parser is quite fast.
• Provides SAX, DOM and XMPP parsers.
• TLS (via gnutls) and SASL support for XMPP security.
• Only UTF8 encoding is built-in supported.
• Fully documented with examples.

It is used in:

• Pardus package manager Pisi.
• Asterisk Jabber module.
• Aubit 4GL Project.
• Several embedded projects.