The XML Apache Project has released version 2.6.1 of Xerces-J, the popular open source XML parser for Java that supports SAX and DOM. New features in this release include
This release also fixes a number of bugs, including a couple that were bedeviling XOM. Most importantly, default atttribute values in invalid documents are now correctly reported by SAX. This is probably the last release that will support Java 1.1. Xerces 2.7 will require Java 1.2 or later.
Joshua Baker has released SBXP 1.0.4, an open source, stream-based XML parser written in C. Notable features include the ability to parse HTML as well as XML.