Need suggestion in parsing xml using sax

[Ms.Ranjan]

Hi I am using sax parser to parse an xml file in java.Here is the xml file
sample.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>   
<Name_XML>   
<Created>2008_11_07 11:41::53</Created>   
<ontology>   
<LabelType name="edge-type" id="3">   
      <LabelValueList>   
        <LabelValue name="agent" id="22" parent_idref="19" />   
      </LabelValueList>   
</LabelType>   
</ontology>   
<Model>   
    <Mole>   
      <Mol type="compound" id="26734">   
        <Name type="EC" long_name="Consortium" value="2.7.1.112" />   
        <Name type="LL" long_name="EzGeny" value="2241" />   
        <Name type="OF" long_name="symbol" value="some" />   
      </Mol>   
    </Mole>    
</Model>   
</Name_XML>

I parsed the code and i could get all its element name and its attribute values.But I am interested in getting the details of the Mol and Name tags.Here is the code that I am using it do it.
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import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;   
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;   
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;   
public class psaxparser {   
    public static void main(String args[])throws Exception   
    {   
    //create Handler   
    OutHandler handler=new OutHandler();   
  
    //create parser   
    SAXParserFactory spf=SAXParserFactory.newInstance();   
    XMLReader parser=null;   
    SAXParser saxParser=spf.newSAXParser();   
    parser=saxParser.getXMLReader();   
  
    //assign the handler to the parser   
    parser.setContentHandler(handler);   
  
    //parse the document   
    parser.parse("sample.xml");   
  
}   
}

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;   
import org.xml.sax.Locator;   
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;   
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;   
  
  
public class OutHandler extends DefaultHandler {//SAX call this method when it encounters an element   
    public void startElement(String strNamespaceURI,String strLocalName,String strQName,Attributes al)throws SAXException    
    {   
           
           
    if(strQName=="Mol" || strQName=="Name" )   
    {   
        System.out.println("startElement:" +strQName);   
        String mainval=al.getValue("name_type");           
        for(int i=0;i<al.getLength();i++)   
            {                          
            String attname=al.getQName(i);     
            System.out.println("attname: "+attname+"   attvalue: "+al.getValue(i));            
        }   
    }   
    System.out.println("---------------------------------------------------------");   
    }   
    //SAX calls this method to pass in character data stored in between the start and end tags   
    public void characters(char[] a,int s,int l)throws SAXException   
    {   
    //System.out.println("characters:"+new String(a,s,l));   
    }   
  
    //SAX calls this method when the end-tag for an element is encountered   
    public void endElement(String strNamespaceURI,String strLocalName,String strQName)throws SAXException   
    {   
       
    //System.out.println("endElement:/" +strQName);   
    }   
}

But what i actually want is when the tag name is mol i want its type alone.
then if the type is "compound" then i want only the attributes long_name="EzGeny" and value="2241" and dont want the rest.
How do i got about doing this,any suggestions please

[devunion]

NEVER compare strings with == operator. You always should use equals.

"Mol".eqals(strQName) || "Name".equals(strQName)

// SOMETIMES NOT THE SAME TO 
strQName.eqals("Mol") || strQName.equals("Name")

[Ms.Ranjan]

Thanks for pointing out.I will do that..that didnt answer my question

[Jimmy Zhang]

SAX is generally considered too difficult to use...
have you tried DOM or VTD-XML ?

[Fubarable]

SAX is generally considered too difficult to use...
have you tried DOM or VTD-XML ?

Can you back this up? So you suggest using DOM to parse a very large XML file, one that may cause the JVM to run out of memory?