Powerful set of tools for working with XML data, providing essential functionality for parsing, manipulating and validating XML.
Microsoft Core XML Services is a freeware programming app and developer tool, developed by Microsoft for Windows.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Tools which allow programmers to build native Windows XML apps
Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) is a set of services that allow developers to build Windows-native XML-based applications. It supports XML 1.0, DOM, SAX, an XSLT 1.0 processor, XML schema support including XSD and XDR, as well as other XML-related technologies.
Features of Microsoft Core XML Services
- Helper APIs to assist with programming for the XML namespace or the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) when it is used to send data directly between Web servers.
- The Document Object Model (DOM), a standard library of application programming interfaces (APIs) for accessing XML documents.
- The Schema Object Model (SOM), an additional set of APIs for accessing XML Schema documents programmatically that was available in MSXML 4.0 and later.
- The Simple API for XML (SAX), a programmatic alternative to DOM-based processing.
- XML Digital Signatures support, which provides the ability to sign and verify XML document data through digital encryption. This support is only available in MSXML 5.0 for Microsoft Office Applications.
- XML Schema Definition (XSD). Earlier MSXML versions such as MSXML 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 as support the XML Data Reduced schema definition language (XDR), which was introduced by Microsoft to support XML schema working needs before XSD became a W3C standard. Support for XDR is removed from MSXML 6.0.
Compatibility and License
Microsoft Core XML Services is provided under a freeware license on Windows from programming software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 6.20.2003.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
on newer versions of Windows like Windows 11 and Windows 10 but more likely to be stable on older versions of the operating system with Vista and XP coming to mind. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.Filed under:
