One of the oldest approaches to processing XML documents in Java also proves one of the fastest: parse-event streams. That approach became standardized in Java with the SAX (Simple API for XML ...

Frameworks for event-driven programming simplify working with complex document structures in SAX2 (Simple API for XML). In this article, the second in a three-part series, Dennis Sosnoski extends ...

That would allow a certain degree of leeway in terms of interoperability, as there is nothing here that would seem to cover reading a Microsoft-generated XML document, for example.