They both have their advantages & disadvantages.
Java's advantage is that it's Interface based, so if a new/better SAX or DOM implementation comes along it can be plugged in with very little work. It's problem is that the Java people did their own thing, and didn't always follow the W3C standard, so methods aren't always named as you might expect, from having worked in other languages.
.NET's advantage is that it's more closely tied with the .NET native datatypes. But since their objects are concrete, when XML 1.1 or v2.0 comes out, they will need to create a new class tree in order to use the new features.
Chip H.
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