Piccolo is a small, extremely fast XML parser for Java. It implements
the SAX 1, SAX 2.0.1, and JAXP 1.1 (SAX parsing only) interfaces
as a non-validating parser and attempts to detect all XML well-formedness
errors. Piccolo was developed by Yuval Oren and is released as open
source software under the terms of the Apache Software License 2.0 .
Piccolo was developed using modified versions of the parser generator
tools JFlex and BYACC/J.
I had used flex and byacc in C and C++ parsers, but I noticed
that almost all Java XML parsers are hand-written. I developed
Piccolo as an investigation of parser generator tools in Java
and of high performance Java techniques. Thanks to James Clark
and to the Apache project, whose parsers helped me improve my
own.
If you want to build Piccolo from the source code, you will also
need Apache's Ant,
a tool similar to UNIX "make". More information is also
available on Piccolo's SourceForge
project page.
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