XML by Example

Figure 8.1: Architecture of an XML program

Object-Based and Event-Based Interfaces

In Chapter 7, “The Parser and DOM,” you learned that there are two

classes of interfaces for parsers: object-based and event-based interfaces.

✔ The section “Getting Started with DOM” in Chapter 7 introduced DOM as an example of

object-based parser. DOM was developed and published by the W3C.

DOM is an object-based interface: It communicates with the application by

explicitly creating a tree of objects in memory. The tree in memory is an

exact map of the tree of elements in the XML file.

Object-based interfaces, like DOM, are simple because they offer a view

that closely ...