MSXML 3.0 Supports XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XDR, and SAX2

Description:If you've been watching the Microsoft® XML Web site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml), you've probably noticed the increased pace of MSXML releases. MSXML 2.0 shipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 while MSXML 2.5 shipped with Windows® 2000. There was also an interim MSXML 2.6 release which included most of the features in the current 3.0 release with a few exceptions. There have also been several additional MSXML 3.0 releases this year. In this month's column, I'll describe the major enhancements made to MSXML since the original, version 2.0. These enhancements include new support for the official W3C XPath 1.0 and XSLT 1.0 specifications, improved support for the Microsoft XML Schema dialect known as XML-Data Reduced (XDR), and new support for the popular stream-based Simple API for XML (SAX). If you're not familiar with some of these terms, refer to The XML Files in the May 2000 issue, where I covered how all the core XML technologies fit together.