Using Java to parse XML

Question

I have made a PHP script that parses an XML file. This is not easy to use and I wanted to implement it in Java.

Inside the first element there are various count of

Answer 1

I agree what has been already posted about not implementing parse functions yourself.

Instead of DOM/SAX/STAX parsers though, I would suggest using JDOM or XOM, which are external libraries.

Related discussions:

• What Java XML library do you recommend (to replace dom4j)?
• Should I still be using JDOM with Java 5 or 6?

My gut feeling is that jdom is the one most java developers use. Some use dom4j, some xom, some others, but hardly anybody implements these parsing functions themselves.