Android: Best parser to parse XML data [closed]

Question

I am developing an application in which the first time I am going to parse data from an xml file coming from a remote server.

But i am not able to select which parser is efficient or best suited for parsing. As there are mainly three types of parsing, which i know :

1. SAX
2. XMLPullParsing
3. DOM

Which is the best parser to parse data? As I searched on Google and found the positive and negative both sides of the above parsers. But I was not able to determine which is the most efficient.

The XML has heavy data with a number of tags.

Please guide me and suggest me which parser I should use as I am using parsing in my application for first time.

Answer 1

SAX Parsing is the Best one to implement than DOM. See the difference between these two in the following:

DOM:

• The Nodes are in the form of Tree Structure.
• Memory: It Occupies more memory, DOM is only preffered in the case of small XML documents.
• Slower at runtime.
• Stored as an objects.
• Programmatically easy to implement.
• Ease of navigation and use.

SAX:

• Sequence of events.
• It doesn't use any memory preferred for large documents.
• Faster at runtime, because of the above mentioned point.
• Objects are to be created.
• Need to write code for creating objects.
• In SAX Backward navigation is not possible as it sequentially processes the document.