SAX Event Handling
The most striking difference between the previous versions of Cocoon and the current release (included on the companion CD) is the XML processing. It has shifted from the memory-consuming DOM model to the event-based SAX model. Whereas the DOM model creates Java objects in main memory that represent the XML document, the SAX model is event-based.
The SAX model consists of a set of interfaces and classes. We will not present every detail of the SAX model, because that would make this book quite heavy. Instead, we will focus on the essential parts.
The most important part of SAX is the set of events sent by the XML parser to a component that is “listening” for them. This component can then decide what to do by acting on the ...
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