Difference between DOM and SAX Parsers in Java

Difference between SAX and DOM Parser is very popular Java interview and often asked when interviewed on Java and XML. Both DOM and SAX parser are extensively used to read and parse XML file in java and have there own set of advantage and disadvantage which we will cover in this article. Though there is another way of reading xml file using xpath in Java which is more selective approach like SQL statements people tend to stick with XML parsers. DOM Parser vs SAX parsers are also often viewed in terms of speed, memory consumption and there ability to process large xml files.

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