10.1. History
The easiest route to an understanding of what SAX is and why it was created is via some background information about the very early days of XML and XML software development. The story begins with Peter Murray-Rust—pioneering XML software developer and creator of the xml-dev mailing list.[1]
[1] This mailing list has become something of an institution in the XML development world. To subscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@scml.org with the message: subscribe xml-dev.
Peter was one of the first developers to create an XML-based application in the form of Jumbo—an XML browser based on the Java programming language. Jumbo began life as browser for XML documents conforming to the Chemical Markup Language DTD (CML). Since then, it has ...
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