Michael Houghton has released version 0.21 of XML for <SCRIPT>, his Javascript non-validating XML parser.

Houghton writes of his design objectives:

• Speed - use as little recursion as possible
• Speed (2) - avoid character-by-character manipulation
• Compliance - implement as much of the 10-Feb-98 recommendation as is possible
• Usefulness - provide DOM-like functionality

The parser is not fully compliant to XML 1.0, but implements enough of XML 1.0 to be useful in small scale/embedded situations. A demo of the parser is available online.