The Mind Electric release of its open source XML parsing toolkit, Electric XML+ 3.0 performs bi-directional Java-XML SOAP serialization at over 10 times the speed of Apache Xerces/JDOM. The company has also posted an update to its Web services integration kit, Glue, which, as the name would imply, now handles attachements.

See the announcments at:
http://www.javaskyline.com/20011022_mexml.html

Regards & all the best,

Rich Katz

Is the parser conform to JAXP?

From the API published, it does not seem to to follow JAXP.
http://www.themindelectric.com/products/xml/releases/EXML-3.0/electric/docs/xml/api/index.html

Ramesh..

It does not support any standard XML APIs.

Maybe but this is a fabulous parser !! I work on an application that must manipulate big XML files (between 25 and 50Mb) and I must say that working with ElectricXML is a pleasure ! I used to work with Xerces in the past so I can compare the two libs. Xerces is standard and more complete but ElectricXML is really fast and easy to use ! Have you seen how it handle XPath ?

My conclusions are : if my application must expose his XML API, I work with standard (XAS/DOM, ...), if my application use only XML internally (no XML API exposed) I use ElectricXML.

Laurent