XmlParsing

Many Java applications work extensively with XML. Nearly every XML standard has some Java support. The basic operation is parsing XML.

• ApacheXerces is one of the most widely used parsers and has very good standards support.
• ApacheCrimson is an older, smaller parser bundled in J2SE 1.4.
• Many others are available, for example much faster or smaller; see http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools/cat_ix.html#SC_XML
• IBM also provides some XML parsers, like XML4J.
• Practical XML - a simple object model for XML-like data http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/16571/0.

J2SE also supports the DOM, SAX, and JAXP APIs for parsing and XsltTransformation.

Related topics:

• STAX

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