With Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML), formerly known as the Microsoft XML Parser, customers can build XML-based applications that follow the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML standards. MSXML is a Component Object Model (COM) implementation of the W3C DOM model.
For more information about the versions of MSXML parser and the products that they are distributed with, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
269238 INFO: Version List of the Microsoft XML Parser
MSXML follows the
m.n versioning convention, where
m and
n indicate the major and minor versions, respectively. For example, MSXML 4.0 indicates the 4.0 release of the parser.
Any version of MSXML can be installed side by side together with other versions of MSXML.