[Expat-discuss] [ANN] VTD-XML Version 1.5 Released

[jzhang at ximpleware.com]

The VTD-XML project team is 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.