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Answer» Following are various types of parsers which are commonly used to parse XML documents − Dom Parser - Parses the document by loading the complete contents of the document and creating its complete hiearchical tree in memory. SAX Parser - Parses the document on event based triggers. Does not load the complete document into the memory. JDOM Parser - Parses the document in similar fashion to DOM parser but in more easier way. StAX Parser - Parses the document in similar fashion to SAX parser but in more efficient way. XPath Parser - Parses the XML based on expression and is used extensively in conjuction with XSLT. DOM4J Parser - A java library to parse XML, XPath and XSLT using Java Collections Framework , provides support for DOM, SAX and JAXP.
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