Mostly a wrapper around the StAX XML APIs bundled with JDK since 1.6 version.
The use case for this project is a web-service which consumes and produces data wrapped in XML. It is not for everyone and will not work if XML tags/attributes contains some of the special symbols ('/', '@', ',') used in *Reader.
Yes, I know about xstream, jdom, and many other options, but often enough I do not need the whole object but just the values of a few fields.