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The Microsoft® XML Parser (MSXML) 3 SDK includes header and .lib files, and documentation for the MSXML 3 Release.

• The MSXML 3 SDK includes documentation for server-safe HTTP access, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)/XPath (XML Path Language), and SAX2 (Simple API for XML).
  

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
xmlsdk.msi SHA1: f79b81b6cf9bdabb5cba96fb260d942ace541c2b	3.93 MB

• • To install the MSXML SDK, you must have the Microsoft Windows® Installer on your computer. If you are running Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 2000 (RTM, SP1 or SP2) you must first update your Windows Installer to version 2.0. If you are running Windows 2000 SP3 or higher, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you already have this and there is no need to reinstall.
    Download Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows 2000 or Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows 98, and windows Millennium Edition.
  
  

• 1. Click the Download button on this page to start the download.
  2. Do one of the following:
  • To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.
  • To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.
  
  
  
  
  When you install the MSXML 3.0 SDK, the files are installed by default in the \Program Files\Microsoft XML Parser SDK folder on your computer.