XML by Example

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Alternative API: SAX

In the previous chapter, you learned how to use DOM, an object-based API

for XML parsers. This chapter complements the discussion on XML parsers

with an introduction to an event-based interface, SAX.

In this chapter, you learn how to use event-based interfaces. You will see

that these interfaces

• operate at a lower level than object-based interfaces

• give you more control than object-based interfaces

• are more efficient than object-based interfaces

• require more work than object-based interfaces

Why Another API?

✔ The “What Is a Parser?” section in Chapter 7, “The Parser and DOM” (page 191),

introduced you to XML parsers.

Parsers ...