What is JAXP ?

JAXP represents set of APIs which are used to parse, transform, validate and query XML documents.JAXP is used seamlessly in XML based applications' integration ,web publishing and e-commerce solutions. JAXP supports a number of different industry-wide standards to process XML documents.

JAXP 1.3 is Production Quality in J2SE 5.0, and the latest JAXP 1.4 is Production Quality Development in Java SE 6. You can find more details of JAXP here.

JAXP supports following standards:

-JAXP 1.4 specification
-SAX 2.0.2
-StAX 1.0, JSR 173
-XML 1.0, XML 1.1
-XInclude 1.0
-DOM Level 3 Core, DOM Level 3 Load and Save
-W3C XML Schema 1.0
-XSLT 1.0
-XPath 1.0

One can capture some sample codes of JAXP usage at Sun Developer's website and Sun Java website.

More useful links on XML and related technologies can be found here.