Parsing technique to be used for reading XML message .

Hi

i am having all my database data in the form of an XML message (A string ) .This is dynamically being constructed using Xstream API . (So XML construction is not a Problem )
This String will be about early about 80 lines .

Now i need to parse this XML file and read the values in it .

Now should i use SAX or DOM API to do this ??

(As i read that there are somewhat performance issues with each approach ) .

Use SAX or Stax

I wonder why XStream is used to persists data records

Perhaps you were looking for an ORM

If you are considering DOM and SAx, you might also want to check out VTD-XML (http://vtd-xml.sf.net), which has
several distinct advantages of DOM and SAX, such as performance, memory usage and native XPath support etc..

Hi,

You might want to take a look at this. This link will help you to identify which parser suits your need the best.

http://www.javazoom.net/services/newsletter/xmlgeneration.html

This will entirely depend on what you will be doing with the parsed xml. If you are just going to read some values from the xml document, SAX should be enough. But if you also want to edit the xml, then you need to have a DOM parser.

http://www.coderanch.com/t/122873/XML-Related-Technologies/SAX-vs-DOM-when-use

You are likely to find that the database operations are the performance limit anyway.

What do you do with the values - just generate a report?

Bill