 in the process
                of becoming an ISO standard.</li>
            </ul>
        </p>
        <p>
		    Previous versions of JAXP supported validation as a feature of an XML parser, represented by
		    either a <A HREF="../../../javax/xml/parsers/SAXParser.html"><CODE>SAXParser</CODE></A> or <A HREF="../../../javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.html"><CODE>DocumentBuilder</CODE></A> instance.
        </p>
        <p>
		    The JAXP validation API decouples the validation of an instance document fr