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XML and Perl
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XML and Perl

by Mark Riehl, Ilya Sterin
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 40m
English
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What Are the Major Approaches to XML Parsing?

Currently, there are two major methodologies behind XML parsing. First is a group of parsers built to conform to the Document Object Model (DOM) standard. Second is another group of parsers built to conform to the Simple API for XML (SAX) standard.

The DOM-based parsers generate a tree of objects in memory based on the structure and contents of the XML data. This enables you to walk through the tree and access information or access only a portion (or branch) of your XML data.

SAX-based parsers take a different approach to parsing—they are event-driven. An event-driven XML parser module searches through XML data and looks for particular patterns (for example, the start of an element, the end of ...

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