JAXP StAX

External

• Elliotte Rusty Harold introduction to StAX http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/17/stax.html

Internal

• JAXP

Overview

The StAX API provide streaming, event-driven, pull parsing for reading and writing XML documents, as an alternative to SAX push parsing and JAXP DOM full in-memory tree structure representation.

StAX offers a simpler programming model than SAX and more efficient memory management than JAXP DOM.

StAX Example

StAX Example

Component Packages

• javax.xml.stream defines the XMLStreamReader and XMLStreamWriter interfaces.
• javax.xml.transform.stax provide StAX specific transformation APIs.