Essential XML: Beyond Markup

Simple API For XML Version 2 (SAX2)

SAX is a set of abstract programmatic interfaces that project the Infoset of an XML document onto a stream of well-known method calls. At the time of this writing, version 2 of SAX was in beta form and will likely become finalized by the time this book is published. Version 1 of SAX was standardized prior to namespaces or the Infoset and requires proprietary extensions to be useful for modern XML applications. For that reason, this book ignores version 1 of SAX and uses the term SAX as a synonym for SAX2.^[3] At the time of this writing,SAX had only been defined for the Java programming language. However, efforts to map SAX to C++, Perl, Python, and COM were all in various stages of development. Figure 2.1 ...