January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 58m
English
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A Short History of SAX
The official SAX web site is at http://www.saxproject.org. You will find a more complete history there, with updates for anything that happened after this book went to print, as well as the current software release and its documentation.
SAX1
SAX 1.0 development started in late December 1997, shortly after publication of the last review draft of the XML 1.0 specification. The initial impetus was to permit Java applications to be independent of which parser they used, and to promote uniformity in the data models available to applications without imposing some particular data representation. At that time, several such Java parsers existed (notably Ælfred, Lark, MSXML, and XP), each with their own APIs and feature sets. That approach would clearly be counterproductive and had already caused complications for one early XML browser, Jumbo, used with a Chemical Markup Language built with XML. (See http://www.xml-cml.org for more information about CML and Jumbo.)
Discussion proceeded quickly. The development primarily took place on the open Internet xml-dev mailing list. There was no bureaucracy since it was organized and run by one person, David Megginson, the original author of Ælfred. Essential contributions were made by developers of other Java XML parsers, including Tim Bray, editor of the XML 1.0 Recommendation and author of Lark, and James Clark, Technical Lead of the XML 1.0 Recommendation and author of XP. In terms of openness, the process ...
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