SAX can parse XML documents but cannot create them. In contrast, DOM can parse and create XML documents. Chapter 3 introduces you to DOM.
What Is DOM?
Document Object Model (DOM) is a Java API for parsing an XML document into an in-memory tree of nodes and for creating an XML document from a node tree. After a DOM parser creates a tree, an application uses the DOM API to navigate over and extract infoset items from the tree’s nodes.
DOM has two big advantages over SAX:
DOM permits random access to a document’s infoset items, whereas SAX only permits serial access.
DOM lets you ...
