My own recommendation would be to write your application in 
XSLT unless there are very good reasons for choosing a lower level language. You 
will find that (especially with XSLT 2.0) it requires a fraction of the number 
of lines of code and is easier to maintain. There's no reason why the 
performance shouldn't be perfectly adequate - thousands of other people are 
developing this way. There's a bit of a learning curve at the start, but most 
competent developers get over that after a few weeks,
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


  
  
  From: Valone, Toren W. 
  [mailto:TValone@D...] 
Sent: 05 April 2008 01:16
To: 
  xml-dev
Subject: [xml-dev] Best parser for writing 
  XML


  
  
  Hi, I don’t know if this is the 
  appropriate list for such a basic question, but here it goes! I am writing a 
  desktop application in Java that needs to read XML files and modify and write 
  out XML files. Currently I have SAX as my parser and it does a good job of 
  reading XML but in all the books I have read writing or modifying XML is 
  really not covered (for SAX). DOM seems to have the ability to read and write 
  but is said to be constrained by large files (but how large is not specified). 
  I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction! Thanks! 
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