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Recently there’s been a bunch of announcements of new XML parsers that claim to be very fast, very small or both. I also see a lot of people get very enthusiastic about using them in their applications. Just the other day I got an email from a user asking if it was possible to use CodeSynthesis XSD with a light-weight XML parser that he found instead of Xerces-C++. Out of curiosity I checked the parser’s description and there I saw a number of common traits of most new, fast, and small XML parsers these days: no support for DTD (internal subset) and CDATA sections, limited support for character and entity references.