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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Eight years after the invention of XML, DOM and SAX,
<BR>despite their respective issues, are still the mainstays <BR>of application
developers. <BR> <BR>So is it the end of road for XML parsing
innovation? <BR> <BR>The VTD-XML project team think not. We are proud to
<BR>announce the availability of both C and Java version <BR>1.5 of VTD-XML, the
next generation open-source XML <BR>parser that goes beyond DOM and SAX in terms
of <BR>performance, memory usage and ease of use. <BR> <BR>The technical
highlights of VTD-XML are: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* Performance: the world's fastest XML parser,<BR>
between 5x~10x faster than DOM<BR>* Memory Usage: 3x to 5x less than DOM,
1.3x~1.5x<BR> XML document size<BR>* Random access with built-in XPath
support<BR>* A simple and intuitive API </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Other advanced features include:<BR>* Buffer reuse<BR>*
Large document support (2GByte)<BR>* Incremental update<BR>* Hardware
acceleration<BR>* Native XML indexing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For demos, latest benchmarks, related articles and
software <BR>downloads, please visit <A
href="http://vtd-xml.sf.net">http://vtd-xml.sf.net</A>. Also let us <BR>know
your thoughts and suggestions and help us improve <BR>VTD-XML.</FONT></DIV>
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