tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374583985636407395.post5230017182999319149..comments2009-11-22T16:33:09.815-08:00Steve Jensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09686593839106107926noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374583985636407395.post-90719098411673863762009-11-22T16:33:09.815-08:002009-11-22T16:33:09.815-08:00You might also want to look at vtd-xml, the latest and most advanced XML processing API available today<br /><br /><a href="http://vtd-xml.sf.net" rel="nofollow"><br />http://vtd-xml.sf.net</a>dontcarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14424619310452413715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374583985636407395.post-509369582257636722008-05-03T02:54:00.000-07:002008-05-03T02:54:00.000-07:00The main advantage is IMHO is that it uses Scala features: its events are case classes so one can pattern-match on the events.<BR/>OTOH it does not have all the fancy low-level XML events ... this can be considered an advantage (simplicity) or a disadvantage (if you neeed to do fancy entity resolution or whatever).Burak Emirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01651698653168460072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6374583985636407395.post-20133983828821162902008-05-02T13:11:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:11:00.000-07:00Glad you liked the article! It was fun to write about Scala, though it did take a little bit of twisting of IBM's arm.<BR/><BR/>The pull parsing in Scala is very nice. It seemed to me to be very similar to a Java StAX implementation, like WoodStox. What kind of advantages does it have over StAX?Michael Galpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08698131967747444207noreply@blogger.com