what is the difference between SAX Parser and DOM Parser??

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what is the difference between SAX Parser and DOM Parser??..

Answer / jayaprakash

good explanation......
Thank you.

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what is the difference between SAX Parser and DOM Parser??..

Answer / raju

SAX
• Parses node by node
• Doesn’t store the XML in memory
• We cant insert or delete a node
• SAX is an event based parser
• SAX is a Simple API for XML
• doesn’t preserve comments
• SAX generally runs a little faster than DOM

DOM
• Stores the entire XML document into memory before processing
• Occupies more memory
• We can insert or delete nodes
• Traverse in any direction.
• DOM is a tree model parser
• Document Object Model (DOM) API
• Preserves comments
• SAX generally runs a little faster than DOM

-raju

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what is the difference between SAX Parser and DOM Parser??..

Answer / prem

Thank you to all to give the feedback about the differences
between the sax and dom.

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what is the difference between SAX Parser and DOM Parser??..

Answer / rajendra

1. s->does not store xml in memory
d->store the entire xml document in memory

2. s->top to bottom traversing
d->traverse in any direction

3. s->insert or delete node is possible
d->insert or delete node is not possible

4. s->especially for java
d->not only for java

5. s->event driven,fast & lightweight
d->tree structure,heavy weight to load & store

6. s->parse the document while reading
d->load the document in memory to parse

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