XML parser with document support

Hi all,
For a whole week now, I m still looking for a nice (but lite) XML parser for J2ME applications. Of course I found kXML 2 parser but I'm confused.
kXML 2 implements the XmlPull API (xmlpull.org) so you can parse easly an XML file with functions as next(), ...
BUT, I would like to deal with a Document Object Model (DOM) (like JDom for J2SE), with this I will be able to do some nice stuff like doc.getRoot().getElement....
In kXML2 Javadoc I found something like this but apparently it doesnt work well (or I dont know how to use it).
Do someone know this API ? http://kxml.sourceforge.net/kxml2/javadoc/
I can't find any example on Internet, everybody seems to use it without DOM....
Until someone give me an answer I will continue to use kXML2 without document object model :(
thanks guys,

just a search..in http://sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=dom+j2me

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