Writing a DOM Parser
There's no question that it's easier to write DOM-based code because you can access the entire document structure as a memory object rather than having to collect information as it passes by during a serial parse of the document. You can use the same DTD and XML, but the parser is totally different when written as a DOM implementation, as you can see in Listing 14.6.
Listing 14.6. DOMProductImporter.java
package com.bfg.xml; import org.apache.xerces.dom.TextImpl; import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser; import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import java.sql.*; ... |
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