Date: Oct. 31, 2000
Link: http://webreference.com/xml/column22/
Source Author or Organization: WebReference.com

This article provides some background about XML parsers, and then makes a comparison between IBM's XML4J, Apache's Xerces, Sun's Project X, Microsoft's MSXML, Oracle's XML Parser for Java and James Clark's XP.

Support for Document Object Model Level 1 (DOM 1), DOM Level 2 (DOM 2), Simple Application Programming Interface for XML 1.0 (SAX1), SAX 2.0 (SAX2), Namespaces, XML Schema and open source licensing are compared. Conformance to the XML standard was determined via a test suite defined by the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) with a set of over 1000 valid and invalid documents used to check each parsers' capabilities.

Download links are included for all parsers.