Streaming API for XML (StaX)

1. Overview

Streaming API for XML, called StaX, is an API for reading and writing XML Documents.
StaX is a Pull-Parsing model. Application can take the control over parsing the XML documents by pulling (taking) the events from the parser.
The core StaX API falls into two categories and they are listed below. They are

• Cursor API
  
• Event Iterator API
  

Applications can any of these two API for parsing XML documents. The following will focus on the event iterator API as I consider it more convenient to use.

2. Event Iterator API

The event iterator API has two main interfaces: XMLEventReader for parsing XML and XMLEventWriter for generating XML.

3. XMLEventReader - Read XML Example

4. Write XML File- Example