This module is part of the Apache Sling project.

The Apache Sling Content Parser API provides support for parsing various files capable of abstracting a Sling resource tree. This API is a continuation of the one provided by the Apache Sling JCR Content Parser bundle. Although very similar, there are some notable changes:

1. the API is now available in the org.apache.sling.contentparser.api package;
2. there is no replacement for the org.apache.sling.jcr.contentparser.ContentParserFactory; to obtain a ContentParser, given that they are exposed as OSGi services, one has to filter on the ContentParser.SERVICE_PROPERTY_CONTENT_TYPE service registration property, to select the appropriate file format;
3. as a consequence of 2., the ParserOptions are now passed directly to the ContentParser#parse method.

Implementations of the API are made available from separate bundles:

1. JSON - org.apache.sling.contentparser.json
2. XML - org.apache.sling.contentparser.xml
3. Jackrabbit Filevault XML (Enhanced JCR 2.0 Document View) - org.apache.sling.contentparser.xml-jcr (the only module depending on the JCR / Jackrabbit APIs)