DOM4J是dom4j.org出品的一个开源XML解析包，它的网站中这样定义：
Dom4j is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework and with full support for DOM, SAX and JAXP.
Dom4j是一个易用的、开源的库，用于XML，XPath和XSLT。它应用于Java平台，采用了Java集合框架并完全支持DOM，SAX和JAXP。
