vtd-xml 1.5 released

Eight years after the invention of XML, DOM and SAX, 

despite their respective issues, are still the mainstays 
of application 
developers.  
 
So is it the end of road for XML parsing 
innovation? 
 
XimpleWare thinks not. We are proud to announce the 

availability of both C and Java version 1.5 of VTD-XML, 
the next 
generation open-source XML parser that goes 
beyond DOM and SAX in terms of 
performance, memory 
usage and ease of use. 
 
The technical 
highlights of VTD-XML are: 

 

* Performance: the world's fastest XML parser,
  
between 5x~10x faster than DOM
* Memory Usage: 3x to 5x less than DOM, 
1.3x~1.5x
  XML document size
* Random access with built-in XPath 
support
* A simple and intuitive API 

 

Other advanced features include:
* Buffer reuse
* 
Large document support (2GByte)
* Incremental update
* Hardware 
acceleration
* Native XML indexing.

 

For demos, latest benchmarks, related articles and 
software 
downloads, please visit http://vtd-xml.sf.net. Also let us 
know 
your thoughts and suggestions and help us improve 
VTD-XML.