When should I choose SAX over StAX?

Question

Streaming xml-parsers like SAX and StAX are faster and more memory efficient than parsers building a tree-structure like DOM-parsers. SAX is a push parser, meaning that it\'

Answer 1

To generalize a bit, I think StAX can be as efficient as SAX. With the improved design of StAX I can't really find any situation where SAX parsing would be preferred, unless working with legacy code.

EDIT: According to this blog Java SAX vs. StAX StAXoffer no schema validation.