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StAX version 1.0 is now available from the central maven repository at ibiblio.org.

To include StAX as a dependency in your maven project, use groupId=net.sf.stax, artifactId=stax, and version=1.0. For more information on building java projects with maven, please see

http://maven.apache.org

Although the StAX project was registered at SourceForge and source code was first committed nearly four years ago, a version 1.0 release is finally available.

Stack API for XML (StAX) is an event-based interface for XML parsing, very similar to Simple API for XML (SAX). However, instead of passing parse events for a whole document to a single ContentHandler, sub-trees can easily be delegated to other handlers. StAX also provides an event-based interface for the process of mapping XML ids to java objects.... read more

I've just separated the StAX code out of BioJava, and uploaded it to CVS here. There should be a tutorial in the next few days.