Stax XML iterator read : Stream Parser « XML « Java Tutorial

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import java.io.FileReader;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLEventReader;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent;

public class STAXIteratorRead {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
    XMLInputFactory xmlif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
    XMLEventReader xmler = xmlif.createXMLEventReader(new FileReader("yourFile.xml"));
    XMLEvent event;
    while (xmler.hasNext()) {
      event = xmler.nextEvent();
      if (event.isStartElement()) {
        System.out.println(event.asStartElement().getName());
      } else if (event.isCharacters()) {
        System.out.println(event.asCharacters().getData());
      }
    }
  }
}