Better way to parse xml

Question

I\'ve been parsing XML like this for years, and I have to admit when the number of different element becomes larger I find it a bit boring and exhausting to do, here is what I m

Answer 1

As others suggested, a Stax model would be a better approach to minimize the memory foot print since it is a push based model. I have personally used Axio (Which is used in Apache Axis) and parse elements using XPath expressions which is less verbose than going through node elements as you have done in the code snippet provided.