Stax2 Extension API
Stax2 API is an extension to standard STAX, "STandard Api for Xml processing". It is implemented by XML parsers such as:
and used by tools such as:
API classes are in package org.codehaus.stax2.
This package (and its sub-packages) also contains partial Reference Implementation of many of API classes, under org.codehaus.stax2.ri: intention is to make it as painless as possible for Java Stax parser to implement full Stax2 support.
Functionality
As of version 3.x (implemented by Woodstox versions 4.0 and above, and Aalto 1.0), API contains following areas of functionality:
Bi-directional (read/write) Validation access with pluggable validators (Woodstox implements DTD, RelaxNG and W3C Schema (aka XML Schema) validators
Documentation
Stax2 API JavaDocs are included in Woodstox JavaDocs documentation.
Downloading
Stax2 API jars are available from Maven, as well as from Woodstox download page.