How frameworks parses xml files?

[Karthik Jayachandran]

How does frameworks like struts 2 or spring parses xml configuration files and converts to an object? I tried browsing spring source files in github but unclear of its process, the code seems overly complicated and I could'nt able to find the tail.

Is there any online resource(s) explaining the process of parsing xml elements and attributes to java objects?

Thanks in advance.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Probably using something like Digester: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-digester/

[Karthik Jayachandran]

Thanks for the link. Will try out using Digester. Previously I was trying with JAXB and the code always becomes messy.