Woodstox: A High Performance XML Processor
By admin on Jul 11, 2008 in Java, open source
Woodstox is a high-performance validating namespace-aware StAX-compliant (JSR-173) Open Source XML-processor written in Java.
As quoted from the website, it has following benefits:
- It has most complete and conformant StAX API support of existing implementations.
- It has most complete XML support (including full DTD support, entities, validation, notations) and conformance (which for 2.9 may be second best, after Xerces, of active Java-based xml parsers).
- It is the fastest implementation for most test cases, from small documents to very large documents (tested with 500 MB ones, should handle bigger ones as well).
- It aims to not only detect all XML problems, but to accurately report them (including full location information).
- Beyond plain StAX API, it has the most configurability; from performance settings to convenience ones (including some settings for relaxed verifications). There are even many things one can do to support “almost well-formed” documents (like legacy (X)HTML content), or to do alternate non-compliant processing.
Woodstox is used in projects like XFire (now Apache CXF).
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