SAX
Introduction
SAX is the
Simple
API for
XML, originally a Java-only API. It is not a W3C standard, but a
de facto standard widely adopted in Java. Rather than building a tree representation of an entire document as
DOM does, a SAX parser fires off a series of events as it reads through the document. These events are pushed to event handlers, which provide access to the contents of the documents. There are versions for several programming language environments other than Java.
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