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jaxp 1.3 provides a wealth of implementations for the latest versions of dom, sax, and xml, new standards such as xinclude, new apis such as the validation API and the XPath manipulation API, and a roll up of implementations such as namespaces, xslt 1.0, xpath 1.0, xml schema.

however, jaxp 1.3 will be bundled with j2se starting with 5.0. given that much of the world still uses j2se 1.4, how can we leverage these advances today?

a java.net project is addressing this need - based on the same code base as the jaxp 1.3 implementation in j2se 5, and including the high-performance XSLTC compiler, it provides all these features to j2se 1.3 and 1.4. the project leads are cooperating with ASF so that the code will eventually make it back to xerces and xalan

to download the unbundled implementation, simply follow the link.