Chapter 6. Programming SAX
IN THIS CHAPTER
Now that we've covered DOM and the easier-to-visualize model of processing XML files, let's go in a different direction. This chapter has only one goal: to teach you what SAX is and how to use it to parse an XML file. As a result, the SAX coverage will be intense as we explore the richness of the features found in SAX.
After a walk-through introduction to SAX, we will dive into a non-validating parser example. This example will serve as a baseline and we will spend the rest of the chapter expanding and changing the original example to show additional features of SAX.
While focusing on examples, we will also illustrate how to avoid common problems that programmers find ...
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