Using the XML package

The JSR-172 XML parsing package is very small. It contains the minimal classes contained in the JAXP packages org.xml.sax and javax.xml.parsers. Applications whishing to parse XML just need to get a reference to SAXParser via SAXParserFactory as shown in the example below:

SAXParser parser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();

And then proceed to do the actual parsing:

InputStream in = Connection.openInputStream("...");
DefaultHandler handler = new MyDefaultHandler();
parser.parse(is, handler);

In SAX 2.0 the parsing is done using an event model. As the parser proceeds down the XML tree, the different methods in DefaultHandler will be called whenever an element is found. The application is expected to process the events it is interested in and use the data as needed.