That supports both SAX and DOM or just that provides a good way of working with XML? If I were making a recommendation for an XML/Java library, I'd recommend XOM. There are converters from SAX and DOM to XOM, but XOM is really a simpler (yet conformant) way of working with XML. http://xom.nu/ Kevin On Jan 27, 2008 5:40 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What is the most respected (useful, understandable) XML Java package? > > In a few fits of creative rage, I have managed to write my first Java > programs. I can now index plain text files with Lucene and search the > index. I can parse MARC files with MARC4J, index them with Lucene, > and search the index. I can dump the results of the OAI-PMH > ListRecords and Identify verbs using harvest2 from OCLC. > > I now need to read XML. Unlike indexing and doing OAI-PMH, there are > a myriad of tools for reading and writing XML. I've done SAX before. > I think I've done a bit of DOM. If I wanted a straight-forward and > well-supported Java package that supported these APIs, then what > package might I use? > > (Now if I could only wrap my mind around reading those JavaDocs.) > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.