The access door shall be equipped with a flush aluminum drop handle, which shall not protrude above the cover and an automatic hold-open arm with red vinyl grip on a release handle.

Although it often makes sense to drop down to SAX code or use a tool like DTDParser (see Resources), or even handle transformations yourself, you need JAXP in your Arsenal of APIs and tools.

If you frequent forums and mailing lists, sooner or later you will see a question that asks how to handle downloading thousands or millions of entries to a drop-down list.