What is JAXP?
Created May 4, 2012
K V R K Varma JAXP(Java API for XML Parsing), does not redefine SAX or DOM but ensures that all XML-Conformant parsers can be accessed within the Java applications through a standard pluggable layer.
These three API's (JAXP, SAX and DOM) make up the Java Developers toolkit for handling XML.
A complete JAXP reference is available here.