XML by Example

NOTE

If needed, the application can build a DOM tree from the events it receives from the

parser. In fact, several object-based parsers are built around an event-based parser.

Internally, they use an event-based parser and they create objects in response to the

events the parser generates.

Why Use Event-Based Interfaces?

Which type of interface do you use? An object-based or an event-based

interface? Unfortunately, there is no clean-cut answer to this question.

Neither of the two interfaces is intrinsically better; they serve different

needs.

The main reason people prefer event-based interfaces is efficiency. Event-

based interfaces are lower level than ...