What is the simplest and minimalistic java xml api?

Question

There are many pretty good json libs lika GSon. But for XML I know only Xerces/JDOM and both have tedious API. I don\'t like to use unnecessary objects like DocumentFactory,

Answer 1

The W3C DOM model is unpleasant and cumbersome, I agree. JDOM is already pretty simple. The only other DOM API that I'm aware of that is simpler is XOM.