ElectricXML
The Mind Electric's ElectricXML [http://www.themindelectric.com/exml/] is yet another tree-based API for processing XML documents with Java. It has a reputation for being particularly easy to use. It's also small. The JAR archive for ElectricXML 4.0 is about 10 percent the size of the JAR archive for dom4j 1.3.
Finally, the Mind Electric has claimed in the past that ElectricXML is much faster and more memory efficient than DOM and JDOM. However, their benchmarks were a little too scant and a little too contrived to convince me.
Example 5.9 shows this chapter's standard example program implemented in ElectricXML. As with the previous examples, the input number is read from the command line. This is wrapped up in an XML request document ...
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