Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

What would be the most efficient way to remove just the root node element from an XML doc? The remainder of the document needs to be preserved.

I did not think XSLT would be appropriate given that not much processing needs to be done. Additional approaches I was thinking
about -
1) Manually stripping the root node using StringTokenizer.
2) With SAX, on startElement callback, echo the element and attributes to a StringBuffer if the element is not the root node.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.