Selecting an XML parser API in Java

[Ronald Bourret]

babak Nakhayi wrote:

> To: 	XML developers; xml newsgroup; XML-Dev Mailing list
>
> I am going to use an API for writing my own XML parser( I want to write
> a VoxML parser) . By now I have downloaded Microsoft, IBM and Oracle
> APIs.
> Does anyone know which one is better?

1) Your best bet is to use a standard API.  The standard object-oriented 
API is the DOM (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/).  The standard 
event-driven API is SAX (http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html).

2) Why do you want to write a parser?  Why not just use an existing parser?

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-- Ron Bourret


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