I'm not familiar with "SAX parsers" but if you can use Xpath to identify the nodes you want to process, then this will test whether the a node is a child of an a or b.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.