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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:52:03+00:00

I am a latecomer to XML – have to parse an XML file. Our

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I am a latecomer to XML – have to parse an XML file. Our company is using xerces already so I managed to cobble together a sample app (SAX) that displays all the data in a file. However, after parsing is complete I was expecting to be able to call the parser or some other entity that had an internal representation of the file and iterate through the fields/data.

Basically I want to be able to hand it some key or other string(s) and get back strings or collections of key/value pairs. I do not see that. It seems pretty obvious to me that that is a good thing to do. Am I missing something?

Is the DOM parsing what I want, or does that fall short too?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Xerces provides both SAX and DOM processing. SAX parsing doesn’t construct a model, so once parsing is finished there is nothing to examine or iterate through. DOM processing produces a tree-structured model which gives you what you want.

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