Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Parsing

Parsing is the process of reading an XML document and reporting its content to a client application while checking the document for well-formedness. SAX represents parsers as instances of the XMLReader interface. The specific class that implements this interface varies from parser to parser. For example, in Xerces it's org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser. In Crimson it's org.apache.crimson. parser.XMLReaderImpl. Most of the time you don't construct instances of this interface directly; instead, you use the static XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader() factory method to create a parser-specific instance of this class. Then you pass InputSource objects containing XML documents to the parse() method of XMLReader. The parser reads the document, ...