DOM Parsing - Document Object Model

• DOM defines a standard way for accessing and manipulating XML documents.
• It presents an XML document as an In Memory tree-structure.
• As the whole XML is loaded into memory(heap), it should be used only for parsing small XML files.
• Can be used to read/write XML files.

Example : java-get-node-value

SAX Parsing - Simple API for XML Parsing

• SAX is an event based XML parsing as it parses XML file step by step.
• It loads only small part of XML into memory.
• It is suitable for parsing large XML file.
• Can be used only for reading the XML files.

Links:

Java-xml-tutorials/

SAX Parsing - Simple API for XML Parsing

• SAX is an event based XML parsing as it parses XML file step by step.