How StAX works

The next API in this course is StAX or the streaming API for xml.…StAX was originally created by BEA and it became a part of the Java API for xml…processing in Java 6 and is now bundled in the jdk that's delivered by oracle.…The version that's included with Oracle's JDK is…only one of multiple implementations that are available though.…As is indicated by it's name, StAX is a streaming API that, like…Sax, the simple API for XML, depends on an event based architecture.…

But unlike Sax, StAX can both read, and write XML content.…If you're an Android developer it's important to know…that there is not an implementation of StAX for Android.…And if you want to Parse XML…using a similar coding style, you should look…at the XML PullParser which is included in Android.…Here are some important characteristics of StAX.…As I've described, it's a streaming processor.…The available implementations include the…version that's incorporated into Oracle's distribution.…

That's based on something called the Sun Java System XML Parser or SJSXP.…