Fast Parser is a high performance Java XML parser. Benchmarks measure it to be up to 100%+ faster than Xerces and the JDK1.4 integrated parser. It is ideal for Web services (SOAP) and XSL. The core parsing package (without DOM) is very compact. It features SAX Level 1 and 2 compliance, JAXP compatibility, namespace support, integration with JXMLPad for real time parsing, modular libraries, an embedded device mode (including minimal memory usage), optional XML Comment support, CDATA support, the ability to include any node type with a custom NodeFactory, and a walker for easily navigating through XML trees. Many API samples and benchmark tests are included. JDK1.1 or later is required.
| Tags | Text Processing Markup XML |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Shareware |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release improves SAX usage by removing the buffering step. Several bugs has been fixed with namespace, skipentity for sax, and XPath with the SimpleNode element.


Release Notes: This releases corrects supports for DOM with the JDK1.1. A bug has been corrected for ISO-8859-1 characters whose value is over 128. Runtime errors inside handlers like SAX are now cached inside of a specific ParseException.


Release Notes: Character reference (ISO/IEC 10646 ex: &#A;), predefined entities (lt, gt, amp, apos, quot), JDOM support, Sax1/2 Locator support, and a fix for a bug with "'" usage for attribute value delimiter.


Release Notes: JDK 1.1.x support, optimization level 2.


Release Notes: This version now has features optimization level1, gets the attribute value with default value, searches nodes by name or attribute, text content, and with multiple criteria (or, and, not criteria), and includes better benchmarking, taking into account initial classes loading.