Java SAX Parsing

Question

There\'s an XML stream which I need to parse. Since I only need to do it once and build my java objects, SAX looks like the natural choice. I\'m extending DefaultHandler and

Answer 1

It's difficult to advise without knowing more about your requirements, but the fact that you are surprised that "my code got quite complex" suggests that you were not well informed when you chose SAX. SAX is a low-level programming interface capable of very high performance, but that's because the parser is doing far less work for you, and you therefore need to do a lot more work yourself.