Background
SAX (Simple API for XML) Version 1.0 was released in May 1998, and is free for both private and commercial use. The standard is available from www.megginson.com/SAX/index.htm.
SAX is an API for event-driven processing of XML (the general nature and benefits of this approach are explored in Chapter 16).
A large number of SAX-compliant parsers have been developed, in an increasing number of computer languages, and most are freely available from the Web. But SAX has its origins as a Java-based technology. Most of the SAX-compliant parsers are Java applications, and this language has therefore been chosen for the examples that follow.
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