Manipulating an existing XML document

Hi,
is it possible to use SAX to parse an XML document and append new elements to it?
i know it can be done using DOM but in this case DOM is too expensive so is there any way that the same can be achieved using SAX?
Any help is greatly appreciated

Hi,
You can parse an XML Document using SAX. You can use JClark's Package which is used to parse an XML Document using SAX. Package can be downloaded from www.jclark.com
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