Understanding Electric XML an XML Java Parser

Electric XML is an XML Java parser that has very little memory footprint. This parser is based on the Glue computing platform. Glue is a modular platform for web services. It is only 200K jar file that is distributed by embedding. Any unmodified java object is exposed to this Glue.

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This parser parses the SOAP messages faster than parsing the DOM objects. The main goal in the design of this parser is to parse the SOAP messages faster and it is achieved. This parser also parses the DTD but does not validate them.

The company that has create this parser claims that this Electric XML parser works faster by 3 to 10 times than any other parser in the market. You can use this parser to generate different types of documents including XHTML and WML.

XML Namespaces, XPath and other encodings are supported by this parser. Support for Unix and Windows is available and you can use this parser with a conditional license.

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