To be fair, SAX parsers also have issues that can cause concern:

• SAX events are stateless. When the SAX parser finds text in an XML document, it sends an event to your code. That event simply gives you the text that was found; it does not tell you what element contains that text. If you want to know that, you have to write the state management code yourself.
• SAX events are not permanent. If your application needs a data structure that models the XML document, you have to write that code yourself. If you need to access data from a SAX event, and you didn't store that data in your code, you have to parse the document again.
• SAX is not controlled by a centrally managed organization. Although this has not caused a problem to date, some developers would feel more comfortable if SAX were controlled by an organization such as the W3C.