The Java API for XML Parsing (JAXP) Optional Package enables basic functionality for reading, manipulating, and generating XML documents through pure Java APIs. The API provides a standard way for any XML-conformant parser to be accessed by an application. The reference implementation uses the high performance Java Project X as its default XML parser. However, the software's pluggable architecture allows any XML conformant parser to be used.
This release is addressed to Java developers who want access to Sun's fast and fully-conformant XML software for development. The library includes fast XML parsers (both validating and non-validating) and supports an optional in-memory object model tree for manipulating and writing XML structured data. Using this software, application and tool developers can build fully-functional XML-enabled Java applications for e-commerce, application integration, and web publishing. This release offers 100% conformance to the XML 1.0 Specification, SAX 1.0, DOM Level 1 Core, and XML namespaces.
You may download the current version of this package by following the links from http://java.sun.com/xml.
See the Installation Instructions
for more information.
Documentation
At this time, the documentation for this package is primarily:
Developers should note that this API documentation uses
the Java 2 SDK javadoc features,
so that the summary pages (listing the packages and the contents
of each package) are considerably more useful than in older versions.
Each summary now has an explanation of its significant
features and (as a rule) how to use the package.
Feedback
Please send feedback on this software to the
<xml-feedback@java.sun.com> mailing address.
That address is not a mailing list; you can't subscribe.
There are 2 mailing lists hosted by Sun for xml. To subscribe to them go
to http://java.sun.com/xml and
follow the instructions listed there.
For very technical "Developers Only" discussions, you may be interested in the XML-Dev list. An archive of that mailing list is available.
The newsgroup comp.text.xml may also be of interest.