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The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition
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The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

by Stephanie Bodoff, Eric Armstrong, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Bode Carson, Ian Evans, Dale Green, Kim Haase, Eric Jendrock
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1568 pages
30h 33m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 5. Simple API for XML

In this chapter we focus on the Simple API for XML (SAX), an event-driven, serial-access mechanism for accessing XML documents. This protocol is frequently used by servlets and network-oriented programs that need to transmit and receive XML documents, because it's the fastest and least memory-intensive mechanism that is currently available for dealing with XML documents, other than StAX.

Note

In a nutshell, SAX is oriented towards state independent processing, where the handling of an element does not depend on the elements that came before. StAX, on the other hand, is oriented towards state dependent processing. For a more detailed comparison, see SAX and StAX in Basic Standards (page 1344) and When to Use SAX ...

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