Is Axis creating a DOM object and hence it may cause memory issue?

[Liu, Scott]

I have read somewhere that Axis uses SAX parser and the memory is basically well managed. But in org.apache.axis.message.SOAPBodyElement class the getDocumentElement method is implemented as such    private static Element getDocumentElement(InputStream input) {         try {             return XMLUtils.newDocument(input).getDocumentElement();         } catch (Exception e) {             throw new InternalException(e);         }     }   So the XMLUtils.newDocument(input) will return a DOM object? This worries me a little bit.   When the InputStream contains 100MB xml data this DOM object is going to consume a lot of memory (it will make the Axis not usable?). Am I missing something here?   Thanks,   Scott