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

JDOM and XOM are probably the simplest. DOM4J is more powerful but more complex. DOM is just horrible. Processing XML in Java will always be more complex than processing JSON, because JSON was designed for structured data while XML was designed for documents, and documents are more complex than structured data. Why not use a language that was designed for XML instead, specifically XSLT or XQuery?