XML Parser

Definitions

1. A library or component that reads raw XML text and converts it into a usable in-memory structure. The two main approaches are DOM parsers, which load the entire document into a tree, and SAX/streaming parsers, which fire events as they encounter each element without holding the whole document in memory.

   In plain English: Software that reads XML files and turns them into something a program can actually work with.

   Example: "The 800 MB feed was blowing up the DOM parser's heap, so we switched to a streaming SAX parser."

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