3.3. Testing SAX Support
SAX is an acronym we will be using a lot in this book. It stands for Simple API for XML. An application programming interface (API) is simply a collection of named operations that a program can perform to interface with a system.
SAX is a standardized API for interfacing to XML parsers. By using SAX, you can change the XML parser used in a program without having to modify the program itself. Much more on SAX later on. Here, we just want to make sure it works on your machine.
On the CD-ROM you will find a Python program testsax.py that performs a simple test of the SAX part of the XML package. Executing testsax.py should produce the following output:
CD-ROM reference=3003.txt Element Employee has started Element Name ...
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