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I've been looking at Microsoft's MSXML. Although it is written in Java, it is tied to the Windows platform. Instead of using Java's URL facilities in java.net.*, it provides an ActiveX control to do the job. Class com.ms.xml.util.XMLInputStream relies on COM interface IXMLStream, which MSXML provides as a DLL written in C++ (see com\ms\xml\XMLStream\XMLURLStream). I'm looking for a 100% pure Java XML parser that is being actively maintained. I've got a few projects up my sleeve, and I want to be sure that the code I write is cross-platform. If I write to MSXML, I tie myself into Microsoft's API. Given that the only implementation of that API works only on Windows, to write to MSXML would be to tie my Java tool to Windows. It seems that Microsoft has the most complete implementation of an XML parser, so Microsoft is doing a very good job of trying to get me to write Java that works only on Windows. -- Joe Lapp (Java Apps Developer/Consultant) Unite for Java! - http://www.javalobby.org jlapp@a... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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