Java^TM APIs for XML Processing (JAXP)

The JAXP API supports processing of XML documents using DOM, SAX, and XSLT. JAXP enables applications to parse and transform XML documents independent of a particular XML processing 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 JAXP reference implementation inludes a high quality parser supporting both SAX and DOM and a transformation engine supporting XSLT.

The latest release, JAXP 1.1, enables the use of the more recent SAX-2 and DOM level 2. JAXP 1.1 also includes an XSLT framework based on TrAX (Transformation API for XML). The original release, JAXP 1.0, provides support for SAX-1 and DOM level 1.

Platforms

JAXP 1.1 is available as an optional package for the JDK 1.1.8 and higher platforms. JAXP 1.1 will be included in the Java^TM 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE^TM) 1.4 and in the Java^TM 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM) 1.3.

Java Community Process

JAXP 1.1 has been developed through the Java Community Process^SM (JSR-063).

Downloads

• Download the 1.1 specification and 1.1 reference implementation

[ This page was updated: Tuesday, 08-May-2001 17:04:49 MDT ]