The Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 4.0 Technology Preview Release is a preliminary release of MSXML 4.0. This technology preview provides a solid look at a number of important new features of MSXML 4.0. It also offers fixes for known problems, improved performance, more samples, and more complete documentation
Most prominent among the additions to the technology preview is the support of the latest World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema, Proposed Recommendation, dated March 30, 2001. Representative of this support are two new MXSML 4.0 features:
XML Schema Definition (XSD) language validation in the DOM
XSD support in XML Path Language (XPath) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
This technology preview also extends MSXML's support for sequential XML processing architectures, based on the de facto standard, Simple API for XML (SAX 2). This extension includes:
Integration between the DOM and SAX parsing models, as demonstrated by DOM-to-SAX and SAX-to-DOM conversions using the SAXXMLReader and MXXMLWriter objects
Generation of HTML from a stream of SAX events, similar to the way that the