I wrote my third XML parser. Here's why this one was different.

Hi, I'm Pasha, and I write XML parsers. Not because the world needs another one. The world has xmlutil by Paul de Vrieze, which I will say specific nice things about further down. The world has JAXB. The world has, depending on how you count, several hundred XML libraries on Maven Central. Adding to the pile is not on anyone's wishlist. And yet, here I am. The first one I wrote years ago for a previous employer, behind a closed-source repo I no longer have access to. The second one, staks , is m