10.8. A SAX Inspection Application
In this section, we develop a useful application that converts a sequence of SAX events into an XML document. This application is a useful debugging tool because it allows you to see at a glance the precise sequence of events generated by any SAX-compliant parser.
Given an XML document like this
CD-ROM reference=10024.txt <Greeting x = "y">Hello World</Greeting>
the application generates this:
CD-ROM reference=10025.txt <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE SAXShow SYSTEM "SAXShow.dtd"> <SAXShow> <Document> <Element name="Greeting"> <Attribute name = "x" type = "CDATA" value="y"/> <chars>Hello World</chars> </Element> </Document> </SAXShow>
We will start with the DTD for the event sequence.
CD-ROM reference=10026.txt ...
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