Basic StAX Parsing Using Woodstox

Overview Woodstox provides excellent support for StAX (Streaming API for XML) parsing. Streaming API is used to parse large XML documents in a performance efficient manner. StAX compliant parsers do not load the entire XML document in memory but use a ‘Pull Model’ to load sections of document and parse it. Woodstox is compliant with … Read more

Woodstox : Steps In Loading of Woodstox Classes

Overview Woodstox classes are loaded using javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory.newInstance() . The steps involved in loading of Woodstox classes is explained below: javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory.newInstance() is called by client code The file ‘META-INF/services/javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory’ is searched in the current classpath As the current classpath contains woodstox-core-asl-4.2.0.jar, the file ‘META-INF/services/javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory’ is found as shown below The contents of ‘META-INF/services/javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory’ (as shown below) … Read more

Java XML: Woodstox Introduction

Overview Woodstox is a very powerful toolkit for XML processing.Its main features are as follows: Namespace aware StAX (Streaming API for XML) compliant (JSR-173) processor Support for DTD, RelaxNG and W3C Validations Support for both XML parsing and XML creation SAX (Simple API for XML) parsing and validation High performance processor with excellant error handling … Read more