Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML

JDOM

There's only one implementation of JDOM, and JDOM is designed around classes rather than interfaces. Thus, some of the same issues that arise with DOM and SAX don't apply here. It has always been intended that you use the classes directly in JDOM. However, JDOM does not include its own parser. Instead it relies on an underlying SAX parser. By default JDOM ships with and uses Xerces, but this can be changed. Simply pass the fully packaged qualified name of the SAX XMLReader implementation class you want to use to the SAXBuilder constructor, as shown below.

SAXBuilder parser
= new SAXBuilder("com.bluecast.xml.Piccolo");

This may speed up parsing a little and save some memory (Piccolo is quite a bit more efficient than Xerces). However, any ...