Java API for XML Processing

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In computing, the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) (/ˈdʒækspiː/ JAKS-pee), one of the Java XML application programming interfaces (APIs), provides the capability of validating and parsing XML documents. It has three basic parsing interfaces:

• the Document Object Model parsing interface or DOM interface
• the Simple API for XML parsing interface or SAX interface
• the Streaming API for XML or StAX interface (part of JDK 6; separate jar available for JDK 5)

In addition to the parsing interfaces, the API provides an XSLT interface to provide data and structural transformations on an XML document.

JAXP was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 5 (JAXP 1.0), JSR 63 (JAXP 1.1 and 1.2), and JSR 206 (JAXP 1.3).

JAXP version 1.4.4 was released on September 3, 2010. JAXP 1.3 was declared end-of-life^{[permanent dead link]} on February 12, 2008.