The StAX project was spearheaded by BEA with support from Sun Microsystems, and the JSR 173 specification passed the Java Community Process final approval ballot in March, 2004 ( ). StAX enables you to create bidrectional XML parsers that are fast, relatively easy to program, and have a light memory footprint. This chapter focuses on the Streaming API for XML (StAX), a streaming Java-based, event-driven, pull-parsing API for reading and writing XML documents. Streaming XML Parser Factories Implementation.
Sun's Streaming XML Parser Implementation.Attributes, Escaping Characters, Binding Prefixes.Reading Properties, Attributes, and Namespaces.Choosing between Cursor and Iterator APIs.