On Using XML Pull Parsing Java APIs

On Using XML Pull Parsing Java APIs

XML Pull Parsing is touted as a high performance alternative to DOM for XML parsing that is easier to use than SAX. SAX is push API and enjoys wide spread adoption virtually removing any other push API in Java. This is not the case for pull parsing where many APIs were created and only recently JSR 172 StAX (Streaming API for XML) promises to provide one standard.