[ssax-sxml] [ANN] VTD-XML Version 1.5 Released

[Jimmy Z. <cra...@co...>]

[ANN] VTD-XML Version 1.5 Released

Eight years after the invention of XML, DOM and SAX,=20
despite their respective issues, are still the mainstays=20
of application developers. =20
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So is it the end of road for XML parsing innovation?=20
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The VTD-XML project team think not. We are proud to=20
announce the availability of both C and Java version=20
1.5 of VTD-XML, the next generation open-source XML=20
parser that goes beyond DOM and SAX in terms of=20
performance, memory usage and ease of use.=20
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The technical highlights of VTD-XML are:=20

* 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=20

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=20
downloads, please visit http://vtd-xml.sf.net. Also let us=20
know your thoughts and suggestions and help us improve=20
VTD-XML.