Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.0

Microsoft® XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.0, formerly known as the Microsoft XML Parser, allows customers to build high-performance XML-based applications that provide a high degree of interoperability with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard.

Among the core services MSXML 4.0 provides is developer support for the following:

• The Document Object Model (DOM), a standard library of application programming interfaces (APIs) for accessing XML documents.
• The XML Schema definition language (XSD), a current W3C standard for using XML to create XML Schemas. XML Schemas can be used to validate other XML documents.
• The Schema Object Model (SOM), an additional set of APIs for accessing XML Schema documents programmatically.
• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) 1.0, a current W3C XML style sheet language standard. XSLT is recommended for transforming XML documents.
• The XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0, a current W3C XML standard used by XSLT and other XML programming vocabularies to query and filter data stored in XML documents.
• The Simple API for XML (SAX), a programmatic alternative to DOM-based processing.

Main Components of the MSXML 4.0 SDK

The following sections provide conceptual and reference information about the technologies of MSXML.

• XML Developer's Guide
• XML Reference
• DOM Developer's Guide
• DOM Reference
• XML Schemas
• SOM Developer's Guide
• SOM Reference
• XSLT Developer's Guide
• XSLT Reference
• XPath Developer's Guide
• XPath Reference
• SAX2 Developer's Guide
• SAX2 Reference

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See Also

Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) | Web Services, part of the Platform SDK documentation