> We have an XML parse that takes a text XML document and return a tree
> of elements. After parsing, navigating the tree is trivial. In my
> admin server, the infrastructure parses the XML request then
> dispatches off the "operation" attribute of the top level request
> element. Each operation is passed the parse tree to who what it
> wishes and returns a response tree that is serialized into XML and
> sent to the front end.

Ok. I do not like it, but that, I suspect, is just personal taste and
some experience of parsing XML in Java.

Roman