I am not Microsoft’s biggest fan, since I was a Macintosh fanatic in the old days, but had to convert into the Wintel platform for about 10 years ago. :-) But I have to admit though, when comparing Microsoft’s XML parser with the ones that are built into Notes/Domino, that their products sometimes are great!
When comparing Microsoft’s XML parser with the other two, I created an agent that parsed a big (over 700 KB) and complex XML document and read an element’s value. I did this 25 times per parser, and came up with this interesting result (average execution time per parser) when executed in the Notes client:

1. Microsoft XML Parser: 0.2 seconds
2. NotesSAXParser: 2.2 seconds
3. NotesDOMParser: 2.5 seconds

When executed on a Domino server, the result was a bit different, since the server is a bit old:

1. Microsoft XML Parser: 1.0 seconds
2. NotesSAXParser: 5.0 seconds
3. NotesDOMParser: 7.7 seconds

You might have noticed that none of the kanngard.net sites is working. That is because I have moved the server from my earlier “ISP” – thanks Ove for your bandwidth and power :-) – but the primary DNS entry has not yet been updated. In the meantime, if you wish to access those site, you have to alter your windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and add for instance the following entries to access my sites:

85.11.47.181 johan.kanngard.net
85.11.47.181 dev.kanngard.net

Keep in mind that the workaround above doesn’t work with all proxies.

You could also use Internet Archive to see snapshots:

• johan.kanngard.net
• dev.kanngard.net

Note: all mails are transferred correctly, since I have the new IP in the DNS as ns1.kanngard.net…