JAXP DOM

Internal

• JAXP
• XML DOM
• JDOM
• dom4j

Overview

The JAXP DOM API is defined by W3C. The parsers implementing the DOM API translates an entire XML document into a memory tree structure.

The parsing process begins by using DocumentBuilderFactory to create a DocumentBuilder instance. The actual implementation is dictated by the value of the javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory system property. The DocumentBuilder produces a Document object as a result of a parse() method invocation.

Unlike an event-driver parser API, the DOM API is memory and CPU intensive.

DOM Example

DOM Example

Component Packages

• javax.xml.parsers
• org.w3c.dom defines the Document class and other DOM components.