
Furthermore, standards make it easier to learn new tools. It is easier to
learn a new interface when 90 percent of it is similar to the interface of
another product.
The two different approaches for interfaces translate into two different
standards. The standard for object-based interfaces is DOM, Document
Object Model, published by the W3C (
www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1).
The standard for event-based interface is SAX, Simple API, developed col-
laboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list and edited by
David Megginson (
www.megginson.com/SAX).
The two standards are not really in opposition because they serve different
needs. Many parsers, ...