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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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The XMLReader extension is an XML Pull parser. The reader acts as a
cursor going forward on the document stream and stopping at each node
on the way.
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It is important to note that internally, libxml uses the UTF-8 encoding
and as such, the encoding of the retrieved contents will always be in
UTF-8 encoding.
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