My SAX parser source code templates generate a separate event handler, or Java class, for each complex XML entity. I define a complex entity as one that might contain other XML entities.

With about a day of work, Brandt’s SAX XML parser can be converted into a simple DOM-type parser that has the ability to manage data as well as read and write the data in XML format. The parser ...

You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use these properties to determine the different types of XML nodes you have in your folder.