DOM:处理大型文件时其性能下降的非常厉害。这个问题是由DOM的树结构所造成的，这种结构占用的内存较多，而且DOM必须在解析文件之前把整个文档装入内存,适合对XML的随机访问

SAX:不现于DOM,SAX是事件驱动型的XML解析方式。它顺序读取XML文件，不需要一次全部装载整个文件。当遇到像文件开头，文档结束，或者标签开头与标签结束时，它会触发一个事件，用户通过在其回调事件中写入处理代码来处理XML文件，适合对XML的顺序访问
STAX:Streaming API for XML (StAX)。

jdom解析xml:

package test;
import java.io.*;
public class DOMTest
{
private String inFile = "c:\people.xml";
private String outFile = "c:\people.xml";
public static void main(String args[])
{
new DOMTest();
}
public DOMTest()
{
try
{
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder builder =
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = builder.newDocument();
org.w3c.dom.Element root = doc.createElement("老师");
org.w3c.dom.Element wang = doc.createElement("王");
org.w3c.dom.Element liu = doc.createElement("刘");
wang.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("我是王老师"));
root.appendChild(wang);
doc.appendChild(root);
javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer =
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys.ENCODING, "gb2312");
transformer.setOutputProperty(javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");


transformer.transform(new javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource(doc),
new

javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult(outFile));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println (e.getMessage());
}
}
}



用SAX方式解析XML，XML文件如下：
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb2312"?>
<person>
<name>王小明</name>
<college>信息学院</college>
<telephone>6258113</telephone>
<notes>男,1955年生,博士，95年调入海南大学</notes>
</person>
事件回调类SAXHandler.java
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import org.xml.sax.*;
public class SAXHandler extends HandlerBase
{
private Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
private String currentElement = null;
private String currentValue = null;
public void setTable(Hashtable table)
{
this.table = table;
}
public Hashtable getTable()
{
return table;
}
public void startElement(String tag, AttributeList attrs)
throws SAXException
{
currentElement = tag;
}
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException
{
currentValue = new String(ch, start, length);
}
public void endElement(String name) throws SAXException
{
if (currentElement.equals(name))
table.put(currentElement, currentValue);
}
}
JSP内容显示源码,SaxXml.jsp:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>剖析XML文件people.xml</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<%@ page errorPage="ErrPage.jsp"
contentType="text/html;charset=GB2312" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.Hashtable" %>
<%@ page import="org.w3c.dom.*" %>
<%@ page import="org.xml.sax.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory" %>
<%@ page import="javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser" %>
<%@ page import="SAXHandler" %>
<%
File file = new File("c:\people.xml");
FileReader reader = new FileReader(file);
Parser parser;
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
SAXHandler handler = new SAXHandler();
sp.parse(new InputSource(reader), handler);
Hashtable hashTable = handler.getTable();
out.println("<TABLE BORDER=2><CAPTION>教师信息表</CAPTION>");
out.println("<TR><TD>姓名</TD>" + "<TD>" +
(String)hashTable.get(new String("name")) + "</TD></TR>");
out.println("<TR><TD>学院</TD>" + "<TD>" +
(String)hashTable.get(new String("college"))+"</TD></TR>");
out.println("<TR><TD>电话</TD>" + "<TD>" +
(String)hashTable.get(new String("telephone")) + "</TD></TR>");
out.println("<TR><TD>备注</TD>" + "<TD>" +
(String)hashTable.get(new String("notes")) + "</TD></TR>");
out.println("</TABLE>");
%>
</BODY>
</HTML>