Advanced Interface for XML Data

Currently there are several interfaces for XML data, such as DOM, SAX, JAXP, StaX, .NET XML support etc. However, each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. This work analyses the existing XML APIs and identifies their pros and cons from various points of view. On the basis of the results a new DOM API for large XML data is proposed and is provided its prototype implementation. New API uses splitting method for input XML document to smaller ones and querying performs on these smaller XML documents. Finally, using a set of experiments the newly proposed API is compared with the existing ones