easy XML parsing ?

ok, this should be very easy if you know it ...

Until now i've been parsing my XMLs with the SAX API in the xerces.jar library. My problem was that I was using it in an applet and slapping xerces along with the applet was making it too big...

So i wandered around the java packages searching for another way to parse the bastards (I just read an already made xml). And I found this:


SAXParser parser;
try {
parser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}

and later I call

parser.parse(InputSource is, DefaultHandler dh)

.... and it works ! with no xerces ...

So my question is this: have I been living under a rock ??? the package javax.xml.parsers.* contains a real implemetation of an XML parser (however simple that is) ??? and this should work with no xerces, just the jre installed ??

thanks