This article looks at the latest XML parser from Microsoft, MSXML 4.0. Microsoft has taken a lot of criticism in the past over its adoption of non-standard schema and XSL drafts, which happened most often in early parser releases and even version 3.0 to a lesser extent. However, MSXML 4.0 is a strong attempt by Microsoft to adopt W3C standards. You can now find standard DOM, XPath, Schema, and XSLT implementations in the new parser. There is even full support for SAX 2.0, as well as many other objects that improve both your productivity, when working with XML on both the client and server, and the scalability of server-based XML applications.

• Overview of MSXML 4.0