XML and Perl

Chapter Roadmap

This chapter discusses generating XML documents from various input data formats. The concept seems to be pretty simple; however, there is more to it than you might think. I’ll also demonstrate the power of XML SAX technology when it is applied to other formats.You will see how the SAX interface can be implemented to process other data formats and how powerful this implementation can be. Although SAX stands for Simple API for XML, it’s now becoming a lot more than that thanks to its well-defined standard and the generality of its implementation. SAX-like interfaces are now being implemented in other communities that deal with different data formats, so eventually the SAX acronym might stand for Simple API for X, with X being ...