Simple API for XML (SAX) or the Document Object Model (DOM). Both of these parsers are provided by
Java API for XML Processing (JAXP). Java developers can invoke a SAX or DOM parser in an application through the JAXP API to parse an XML document that is, scan the document and logically break it up into discrete pieces. The parsed content is then made available to the application. In the SAX approach, the parser starts at the beginning of the document and passes each piece of the document to the application in the sequence it finds it. Nothing is saved in memory.
The application can take action on the data as it gets it from the parser, but it can't do any in-memory manipulation of the data. For example, it can't update the data in memory and return the updated data to the XML file.
In the DOM approach, the parser creates a tree of objects that represents the content and organization of data in the document. In this case, the tree exists in memory. The application can then navigate through the tree to access the data it needs, and if appropriate, manipulate it.
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[ August 02, 2007: Message edited by: mahudees waran ]