Summary
This chapter covered the three most commonly used interfaces of SAX and provided enough information to enable you to get a good start with using SAX. It also discussed various ways that a SAX programmer could get into trouble and how to avoid those problems. The chapter then showed how to use the various callback events that SAX provides for our use in parsing XML.
While the chapter showed the richness of SAX, it also demonstrated that using SAX isn't especially hard. The state of the current development in XML means that many JSP programmers will only use SAX indirectly through various interfaces found in JAXP, JDOM, dom4j, or other XML parsers. However, this chapter has shown that using SAX directly isn't something to fear. It's important ...
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