XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Nils Kilden-Pedersen" <nilskp AT gmail.com>]

On 10/20/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> I don't really believe that. I find SAX a lot easier to use for many use
> cases than DOM. You just need to learn a couple of design patterns and
> data structures and SAX becomes really easy. The issue is that many
> programmers are much more comfortable with trees and iterators than
> stacks and observers; but I don;t think SAX is fundamentally more
> difficult than DOM; in fact quite the opposite. Even once you understand
>   trees and iterators there's still a huge number of nasty problems in
> DOM to bite you whereas SAX is quite clean.

The problem with SAX is that you have to keep your own state, and you have
to read the data in the order it's been serialized in. It's just more work
than it's worth for parsing a config file.
For arbitrary data streams, it's fine, in fact it's great.