Thanks to all who replied to my e-mail.

The approach I have decided upon is to try two implementations:

1. XSLT

2. StAX

XSLT is really the simplest but my bosses might not like the memory
requirements so StAX would a good alternative

The URL provided by Brennan is excellent on StAX:
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.6/tutorial/doc/SJSXP2.html 

Peter


petera wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a particular problem to solve:
> 
> I have an xml batch file that contains individual xml invoices. I need to
> extract these xml invoices one at a time and
> place them on a message queue i.e. I just need to get all the data between
> the invoice start and end tags put it
> in a string and place it on a message queue (validation occurs on the
> invoice itself on the receiver side).
> 
> What is likely to be my best approach, DOM (unlikely I guess), SAX, StAX
> or simply writing a java program using indexOf, in terms of performance ?
> 
> 
> TIA Peter
> 
> 

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