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The '''Java API for [[XML]] Processing''', or '''JAXP''' (pronounced ''jaks-p''), is one of the [[Java XML]] [[programming]] [[Application programming interface|API]]s. It provides the capability of validating and parsing [[XML]] documents. The twothree basic parsing interfaces are:

* the [[Document Object Model]] parsing interface or '''DOM''' interface

* the [[Simple API for XML]] parsing interface or '''SAX''' interface

* the [[StAX | Streaming API for XML]] or '''StAX''' interface (added in JDK 6; separate jar available for JDK 5)

A third interface most likely be added in the next major version of Java, Mustang due late 2006. ^{(2006 was 2 years ago, what's the current status?)}

* [[StAX]] the Streaming API for XML. JSR #173.

In addition to the parsing interfaces, the API provides an [[XSLT]] interface to provide data and structural transformations on an XML document. JAXP was developed under the [[Java Community Process]] as JSR 5 (JAXP 1.0) and JSR 63 (JAXP 1.1 and 1.2). [[J2SE]] 1.4 is the first version of Java that comes with an implementation of JAXP. JAXP version 1.4.2 was released on May 30, 2007. JAXP 1.3 was [https://jaxp.dev.java.net/1.3/EndofLife.html end-of-lifed] on February 12, 2008.