XML by Example

At first sight, this solution is less natural for the application because it is

not given an explicit tree that matches the file. Instead, the application has

to listen to events and determine which tree is being described.

In practice, both forms of interfaces are helpful but they serve different

goals. Object-based interfaces are ideal for applications that manipulate

XML documents such as browsers, editors, XSL processors, and so on.

Event-based interfaces are geared toward applications that maintain their

own data structure in a non-XML format. For example, event-based inter-

faces are well adapted to applications that import XML documents in data- ...