What Is SAX?
SAX was invented in late 1997 to early 1998, when Peter Murray-Rust and several authors of XML parsers written in Java decided there wasn't much point in maintaining multiple similar yet incompatible APIs to do exactly the same thing. Murray-Rust was the first to suggest what he called “YAXPAPI.” The reason Murray-Rust wanted Yet Another XML Parser API was that he was thoroughly sick of supporting multiple, incompatible XML parsers for his parser-client application, JUMBO. Instead, he wanted a standard API everyone could agree on. Parser authors Tim Bray and David Megginson quickly signed on to the project, and work began in public on the xml-dev mailing list, where many people participated. Megginson wrote the initial draft of SAX. ...
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