dom parser question

Hi:

I am looking into using a DOM parser.
I started with the one in JAXP, but that was a little too much work for
what i need. In the JAXP documentation, they mention that for simpler
cases, one might want to consider jdom or dom4j.

I just tried dom4j, and it works pretty well...
i have not tried jdom, but would like to ask if anyone has experience
with both jdom and dom4j to give some advise.

I would like to know which one is faster, which one is better maintained
and up-to-date, which is more widely used and accepted by the
community., which one is more likely to be around for a while....

any more informaiton or insight is appreciated.

thanks

hilz

In article <qyXgf.42707$2k5.30092@dukeread09>, hilz <> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I am looking into using a DOM parser.
>I started with the one in JAXP, but that was a little too much work for
>what i need. In the JAXP documentation, they mention that for simpler
>cases, one might want to consider jdom or dom4j.
>
>I just tried dom4j, and it works pretty well...
>i have not tried jdom, but would like to ask if anyone has experience
>with both jdom and dom4j to give some advise.
>
>I would like to know which one is faster, which one is better maintained
>and up-to-date, which is more widely used and accepted by the
>community., which one is more likely to be around for a while....
>
>any more informaiton or insight is appreciated.
>
>thanks

This isn't answering your question - but I've been using JDom for 3 years and
I like it a lot. It's been handling the XML processing for a small telco with
no problems. And some of those documents are large.

Eric

EricF