how to read XML file in Java?

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You can do it two main ways - either with DOM (Document Object Model), which loads the whole XML file as a Document, or with SAX (Simple API for XML), which reads the file and calls into your code with details of each element.

DOM is easier to use for small files, and gives you 'random access' to the elements, but takes a while and a lot of memory to load large files. Sax is a bit fiddly to use, but relatively lightweight and fast, and better suited sequential processing of large files.

See Parse Using SAX or DOM for (limited) examples.

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