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Java^TM API for XML Processing

The Java^TM API for XML Processing (JAXP) Optional Package enables applications to parse and transform XML documents using a pure Java API that is independent of a particular XML processor implementation. Depending on the needs of the application, developers have the flexibility to swap between XML processors (such as high performance vs. memory conservative parsers) without making application code changes. Thus, application and tools developers can rapidly and easily XML-enable their Java applications for e-commerce, application integration, and dynamic web publishing.

The Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.1 is the next major release of the technology previously referred to as the Java API for XML Parsing 1.0. Version 1.1 includes an XSLT framework based on TrAX (Transformation API for XML) plus some updates to the parsing API to support DOM Level 2 and SAX version 2.0 and an improved scheme to locate pluggable implementations.

For earlier specification (1.0) and reference implementation (1.0.1), see the Java Technology & XML archive.

[ This page was updated: 27-Jun-01 ]