PDOM (Partial DOM) Parser is a cross breed between SAX and DOM Parsers. It uses SAX internally, but loads only that cross section of the xml, which the client program needs as a tree structure and hence the name “Partial DOM”.

This is largely useful when you want to load only a small section of a huge xml document.

The PDOM API would accept one or more XPATH expressions as input, and will load the tree structure represented by this XPATH. This tree structure is represented by JDOM API (as JDOM is user friendly and is widely accepted).

Salient Features: * Supports Java 1.4 and above * Supports a variety of XPATH expressions (see FAQ for limiations). Implementation Specifics: * Has built-in XPATH Compiler * Has built-in Expression Evaluator * Custom Stack/Tree collection implementations

System Requirements: * Java 1.4 and above * JDOM v1.1 and above