SAX and DOM APIS

[Sadashiv Borkar]

Can annyone tell me the advatage of sax and dom apis because some books says that dom is faster whereas I think that sax r faster because they parse the document only once can anyone clarify...please..?
Thanx in advance

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Use of DOM:
- when you need to know a lot abt the structure of a doc.
- move parts of the doc around (re-arrange the hierarchy)
- use info of the doc more than once.
Use of SAX:
- need to extract only a few elements from an xml doc.
- not much memory to work with
- one time use
If you are looking for detailed examples, I would
strongly suggest the IBM Tutorial posted earlier
by Bill. Thanks Bill.
Regds.
- satya

[This message has been edited by Madhav Lakkapragada (edited August 02, 2000).]