How to deserialize Java objects from XML?

Question

I\'m sure this might have been discussed at length or answered before, however I need a bit more information on the best approach for my situation...

Problem

Answer 1

DOM, SAX and XSLT are different animals.

DOM parsing loads the entire document into memory, which for 100K to 5MB (very small by today's standards) would work.

SAX is a stream parser which reads the XML and delivers events to your code for each tag.

XSLT is a system for transforming one XML tree into another. Even if you wrote a transform that converts the input to a more suitable format, you'd still have to write something using DOM or SAX to convert it into Java objects.