What is the best (and easiest) XML parser to use for a Java class that will be deployed using jdk1.5.0_12.

Use the one in the JDK

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.html

or

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParser.html

(both exist in Java 5)

Can you point me to any sample classes that use either of these parsers?  i.e.: a class that reads one or two elements from an XML document (or String included in the class that is moved into the XML document).

http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.xml.parsers/BasicDom.html

Are you looking for an actual parser or for an easy-to-use API to parse an XML document? If you are looking for the latter, I would suggest using JDOM, an alternative to DOM API you would have to use if you were to go with JDK XML parsing API.

http://www.jdom.org/

JDOM's mission is to make API for parsing, traversing and building XML documents simpler that that afforded by W3C DOM API.

Some JDOM usage examples:

http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/examples/14/index.html


Michael

What I am looking for at this point is an easy way to traverse and search for specific elements and attributes in an XML document that is less than 16k in size.  Basically I need to be able to read the document as if I would try to look for records in a database with an index with multiple keys.

...something along the lines of xPath type search capabilities but that can be built within the Java class.