Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue 24 Oct 2017, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
>
>> On 2017-10-24 09:38, Andy Moreton wrote:
>>> For libxml2, try using (shr-render-buffer) on an HTML/XML buffer to get
>>> the library loaded.
>>
>> Is that better than just calling libxml-parse-xml-region and checking for a
>> nil return value? It sounds like shr-render-buffer would do a lot more — do we
>> need that?
>
> No, it was just an example of doing something to force the library to be
> loaded. Your version is simpler, and having (libxml-available-p) would
> be even better.
>
>     AndyM

Like thus? Very lightly tested on GNU/Linux only. Might need a NEWS
entry.